I Distilled a 397B Model Into a 4B One for $1.60. It Now Catches 28 of 33 Park Alerts That Should Stop Your Hike.
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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass I had Qwen3.5-397B label every live National Park Service alert, 627 of them, then used Tinker to fine-tune Qwen3.5-4B on its homework, with the rangers' own categories as the answer key. On 126 held-out alerts…
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- 2026-10-10 13:59 · DEV Community — AI
I Distilled a 397B Model Into a 4B One for $1.60. It Now Catches 28 of 33 Park Alerts That Should Stop Your Hike.