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> SmolLM2 models primarily understand and generate content in English.

https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct/b...

I occasionally use the 1.5B and 3B version of Qwen2.5 for translation between English, Chinese and Japanese, of which they seem to do a good job.

> Does anyone know of a good lightweight open-weights LLM which supports at least a few major languages (let's say, the official UN languages at least)?

RWKV World exists (100+ languages on purpose), though it's a bit different from traditional LLMs so YMMV.

Good point raising just how many don't speak any English. That sounds like a lot of people who could do something to produce/ contribute to a non-English language language model.