Boredom Project: User Trains a 1B Model From Scratch on an RTX 3070
Head-Penalty-2416 · reddit · 2026-09-01
A Reddit user decided—purely out of boredom—to train a 1B-parameter local model from scratch in Python on an RTX 3070 8GB, estimating roughly 10 days of nonstop training. They admit the model will be useless, but "I built an AI from scratch" makes for a great brag, and they asked the community for name suggestions.
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