GuppyLM: a language model with 9 million parameters
A post introduces GuppyLM, a language model with about 9 million parameters, and claims it can be trained from scratch in five minutes. The project is presented as a small-scale way for engineers to explore language-model training.
Published on September 19, 2026, the post presents GuppyLM as a language model with about 9 million parameters, described by its author as able to “talk like a little fish.” The author claims it can be trained from scratch in five minutes.
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