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I developed my own quantized LLM from scratch, trained on 30B tokens, deploys in 60 MB

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Reposting here after sharing this on [ r/MachineLearning ]( r/MachineLearning ) a few days ago, where it got a much better response than I expected (300+ upvotes, great questions, zero roasting) GitHub is at 35 stars now. So here it is. I trained a 250M parameter model from scratch on 30B tokens of…

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  1. 2026-08-24 04:55 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I developed my own quantized LLM from scratch, trained on 30B tokens, deploys in 60 MB

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