Elie Bakouch
Official Role
Research Engineer at Prime Intellect.
Official Bio
Elie Bakouch is a Research Engineer at Prime Intellect, working to advance open pre-training and mid-training. Previously at Hugging Face, he created and trained the SmolLM series of efficient language models and contributed to numerous open research efforts including Open-R1, SmolVLM, and the open pre-training playbooks, comprehensive guides and recipes for training language models from scratch
Scheduled Sessions
- 2026 06 30 elie bakouch the era of auto research — « the era of (auto) research » (2026-06-30, 12:05pm-12:25pm)