Macrocosmos' Orion tests whether the long tail can train serious models at 16B and 100B
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-02
MacrocosmosAI introduced Orion, a project testing whether teams on the long tail can train serious large models. Two training runs have been completed so far, at 16B and 100B parameters, with results shared publicly.
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