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Lessons learned while building Apex-2

Hi everyone, thank you so much for all the interest in my model. It's more than I expected. Here is a short summary of the trial and error I went through while building Apex-2. 1. GPUs were always the bottleneck I planned to train on about 1T tokens, but in the end I could only train on about 80B.…

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  1. 2026-10-05 08:18 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Lessons learned while building Apex-2

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