Macrocosmos launches IOTA Decide 4B, its first open-weights model trained on 16 globally distributed GPUs
markjeffrey · x · 2026-11-05
Macrocosmos has released IOTA Decide 4B, its first public model, claiming Pareto-optimal speed and quality. The weights are open under Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face.
- Began as an internal fine-tuning experiment on their SDK, led by @vtruba
- No reserved cluster needed: they provisioned 16 GPUs from around the world and ran workloads across them
- Team says two years of work are paying off, with more SDK use cases coming soon
Related event: Macrocosmos Open-Sources Its First Public Model IOTA Decide 4B(2 posts)→
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