Indie Tamil-First Model Scales to 2.5B After Openly Admitting 1.5B Failure

Indie developer Mechramc admitted his Tamil-first model Agaram's 1.5B version failed with runaway loops and gibberish, then scaled it to 2.5B with rewritten corpora and synthetic data, set to open-source next week. Industry figures praised the transparent sharing of failure.

2026-10-10 ~ 2026-10-12 · 3 related posts

• Tamil-first LLM Agaram scales to 2.5B after failed 1.5B attempt, open weights next week — Mechramc · 2026-10-10
• Tamil-first LLM trainer openly shares how the 1.5B version looped and rambled — lmoroney · 2026-10-12
• Dev training Tamil-first 1.5B model from scratch admits looping, reworks corpus — lmoroney · 2026-10-12