When GPT-4 launched, hobbyists stayed up all night posting their model loss curves
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-21
A nostalgic look back at a 'simpler, whimsical time' when hobbyists could locally train models as good as GPT-3, and when GPT-4 launched, people spent day and night posting loss curves from their own models—a contrast to today's inaccessible frontier.
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