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From zero to a tiny LLM: an interactive guide to how language models actually work

Over the past few weeks, I decided to figure out how LLMs actually work under the hood. That turned into a small interactive guide where we start from scratch, go through all the core mechanisms, and train our own micro LLM. The first version took one night on a Mac. For a larger one, I had to rent…

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  1. 2026-09-28 07:08 · r/learnmachinelearning
    From zero to a tiny LLM: an interactive guide to how language models actually work

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