Training a 97.5M Python coding model from scratch for $1.40 in GPU time
I wanted to really understand how language models are built, and the best way I know to understand something is to build it. So I built a small one myself, from nothing: my own tokenizer, my own model, my own training loop, fine-tuning and benchmark. I kept it to Python code only, and kept it small…
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- 2026-10-18 01:11 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Training a 97.5M Python coding model from scratch for $1.40 in GPU time