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I'm 16 and spent a year training my own 780B language model. Here's what I learned

Hi, I'm Afonso. I'm 16, and for about the past year I've been building Ganymede, my own large language model, mostly on my own under a small lab I started called Merkium. Most write-ups about training LLMs come from big labs with huge teams. I wanted to share what it actually looked like from the o…

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  1. 2026-10-21 23:07 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I'm 16 and spent a year training my own 780B language model. Here's what I learned

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