This post was originally published by [email protected] (Carl Franzen) on Venture Beat.
Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.
Chinese social networking company Weibo’s AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B.
It’s available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Hugging Face, GitHub and ModelScope, with a technical report on open access science publishing site arxiv.org.
And yet, despite its compact size, VibeThinker-1.5B achieves benchmark-topping reasoning performance on math and code tasks,
