HuggingFace co-founder Thom Wolf embraces meme status over 'needle in a haystack' microduck training
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-08-30
HuggingFace co-founder Thomas Wolf quote-tweeted a post showing a small "microduck" model being trained to play the classic needle-in-a-haystack LLM benchmark game, joking that he is "becoming a meme". The original poster, cdngdev, has been running this long-context test against their tiny duck model — a funny, oddly endearing glimpse into small-model training culture.
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