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I trained a 350M Python model from scratch on free compute

Ophyx is a 350M-parameter Python code model that I trained from scratch, and every step ran on Kaggle's free TPU, GPU and CPU quota. The finished model scores 43.9 on HumanEval+. Among the open instruct models under 1B that I tested, it leads on BigCodeBench and on my own 42 hands-on tasks. You can…

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  1. 2026-10-31 17:59 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I trained a 350M Python model from scratch on free compute

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