Tev1: a $17-finetuned tiny classifier running locally at ~50ms latency

iamrobotbear · x · 2026-09-25

nutlope released Tev1, a Jev-like task classifier finetuned from Qwen3.5 4B for only $17, open-sourcing weights, data recipe, and a full training tutorial. A 0.8B variant runs fully locally on a Mac via Ollama at 50ms end-to-end latency. Available on Together serverless at $0.042/1M input and $0 output.

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