PewDiePie is quietly doing agentic GRPO training off the grid, say HF engineers
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-10-01
Hugging Face engineers Merve and Maziyar Panahi discuss PewDiePie's latest project: the former YouTube star is running his own agentic GRPO training (tool unspecified).
- He wanted to distill Sol but got banned a few times;
- He built a website asking people to donate training traces — nobody did (HF folks joke he could have just used the Hub);
- They want to help but can't reach the man, who is effectively living off the grid.
Related event: PewDiePie Trains GRPO Models Solo, Hugging Face Researchers Can't Reach Him(2 posts)→
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