Pau Labarta Bajo's Newsletter

Let’s build an on-device voice agent

Fine-tuning LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B for function calling

May 30 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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How to build end-2-end systems with Small Models - part 2

Data collection, Evaluation and Finetuning

May 16 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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How to build end-2-end systems with Small Models - part 1

Problem framing and System Design

May 2 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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April 2026

Fine-tune a Vision-Language Model on Satellite imagery

Beyond the clouds.

Apr 11 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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Fine-tuning a Small LM to control your house

Synthetic data generation & Fine-tuning

Apr 4 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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March 2026

Building a local Home Assistant with LFM models

Tool calling with small language models

Mar 21 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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Let's build a local AI assistant.

Step by step. With code.

Mar 7 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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February 2026

Let's build a private meeting assistant with LFM2-24B-A2B

Every meeting ends the same way.

Feb 28 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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What can a Small Language Model do?

3 real-world examples with code

Feb 7 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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January 2026

Building a local AI flight booking agent with a Small Reasoning Model

Hello LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking 👋

Jan 31 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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Real-time video captioning with LFM2.5-VL-1.6B and WebGPU

The power of a Small Vision LM, the ONNX runtime and the WebGPU API

Jan 17 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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Watch: Fine-tuning LFM2-350M for Browser Control

60-minute deep-deep-deep-dive

Jan 3 • Pau Labarta Bajo

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