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Pip, a tiny 2B chat buddy who'd rather say "I don't know" than make something up

A while back I posted Aether, a 50M parameter model I trained from scratch. Meet Pip, the first of the NiemsDrift souls. He's small, warm, honest, and a little weird. You can try him right now: `ollama run NiemsDrift/pip` Pip is built on Qwen3.5-2B with a LoRA fine-tune. My biggest priority wasn't…

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  1. 2026-10-22 11:21 · r/LocalLLM
    Pip, a tiny 2B chat buddy who'd rather say "I don't know" than make something up

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