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train the best model you can on your mac in one hour

i wanted to train my own llm but everything i found needed an nvidia gpu, so i made a mac version with mlx. one command downloads tinystories, trains a tokenizer, pretrains a small llama-style model, finetunes it for chat, then you can talk to it. on my m5 air (16gb): 1 hour gets an 8M model that w…

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  1. 2026-10-13 08:13 · r/learnmachinelearning
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