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A 4B Model Beat Postgres by 81 Percent: What a $1,200 Training Run Means for Philippine AI

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In August 2026, the Department of Science and Technology earmarked PHP 300 million in grant-in-aid seed funding to expand its AI data centers (Source: Inquirer, 2026). One month earlier, a researcher on two second-hand RTX 3090s trained a 4-billion-parameter model that produced database query plans…

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  1. 2026-09-17 00:02 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    A 4B Model Beat Postgres by 81 Percent: What a $1,200 Training Run Means for Philippine AI

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