How did Hugging Face SmolTalk2 do on X?

Hugging Face posted the SmolTalk2 launch from @LoubnaBenAllal1 on Jul 11, 2025. The post has 31,549 views, 257 likes, 45 reposts, 2 quotes and 4 replies, an engagement rate of 0.98%. It ranks #2384 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

Loubna Ben Allal@LoubnaBenAllal1 · 9.2K followersView on X
Introducing SmolTalk2: the dataset behind SmolLM3's dual reasoning. - mid-training → 5M samples - SFT data → 3M samples - preferences for APO → 500k samples It combines open datasets with new ones curated for strong think and no_think performance. https://hf.co/datasets/HuggingFaceTB/smoltalk2
Hugging Face SmolTalk2 launch post media
Jul 11, 2025 · 31,549 views
  • 18%the median launch175K median views
  • #2384of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 3.4xits own following9,223 followers
Views
31.5K
Likes
257
Reposts
45
Quotes
2
Replies
4
Bookmarks
142

What would these views cost to buy?

At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 31.5K views would cost $3K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 32x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 3.4 views for every follower of @LoubnaBenAllal1.

What launched?

Hugging Face released SmolTalk2, the dataset behind SmolLM3's dual reasoning, combining open datasets with new ones curated for think and no_think performance.

How does it compare with other launches?

Hugging Face SmolTalk2 has more views than 16% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 18% of the median launch's 175K views.

  • Hugging Face SmolTalk231.5K
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricHugging Face SmolTalk2Median launch
Views31.5K175K
Engagement rate0.98%0.48%
Views per follower3.42.8
Quote posts227
Saves per 10K views45.014.2

Other Hugging Face launches we track: Hugging Face Carbon-X (106.5K views) and Hugging Face Carbon (41.3K views). All 3 Hugging Face launches, or every ai launch.

Against launches like it

A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
AI launches1,462263K12%#1307
Accounts under 10K followers571131K24%#461
Image launch posts620143.1K22%#510
Every launch2,839175K18%#2384

What this launch shows

From an account with 9.2K followers, the post reached 3.4 times the account's following. Launches from accounts under 10K followers reach a median of 61 times their following, so this one went about 6% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 461 of 571 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 2 quote posts, 0.6 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.

The first line is "Introducing SmolTalk2: the dataset behind SmolLM3's dual reasoning.". The post runs 40 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 143.1K views, against 186.1K for the rest.

There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.

It went out on a Friday (UTC). Friday launches have a median of 162.2K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.

Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.

Questions about this launch

How many views did Hugging Face SmolTalk2 get on X?
31,549 views. Hugging Face posted it from @LoubnaBenAllal1 on Jul 11, 2025, and the post has 257 likes, 45 reposts, 2 quotes, 4 replies and 142 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Hugging Face SmolTalk2 a big launch on X?
It ranks #2384 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 16% of them and 18% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.98%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 31.5K views on X cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 31.5K views would cost $3K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 32x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/hugging-face-smoltalk2, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.