Best AI News — Updated Every 3 Hours
Story Page
← All Stories
Home→ Community→ Story
Community

I trained a 1B-parameter LLM from scratch on 20B tokens for about $200

Via r/LocalLlama
Monday, Aug 10, 2026 · 9:44PM
Summary

A few months ago, I had the idea of making a LLM from scratch as a personal project (for learning and partly for improving my resume). Since I learned a lot from other posts on here over the past year, I wanted to share the results. TLDR: I trained a 1.1B param model on 20B tokens from fineweb-edu,

Continue reading the full article
Read at r/LocalLlama
www.reddit.com
Back to all stories