Pre-Training My First Base Language Model From Scratch
Took a model from random initialization through 2B tokens of FineWeb-Edu on a single H100 and watched it learn next-token prediction from nothing.
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Took a model from random initialization through 2B tokens of FineWeb-Edu on a single H100 and watched it learn next-token prediction from nothing.
I didn't come close to the Parameter Golf leaderboard, but I still had a lot of fun running scattered H100 experiments on Modal, hunting tiny BPB improvements while watching ideas collapse against artifact size limits, and figuring out the hard way why squeezing a capable model into 16 MB is trickier than it sounds.