@CaptainInsightX: OpenAI spent billions on training infrastructure. Two Aussie brothers made AI training 30x faster ~ with $500K total. M…
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Brothers Daniel and Michael Han built Unsloth, an open-source tool that makes LLM fine-tuning 2-30x faster with 70-90% less memory, raising only $500K while competing with billion-dollar infrastructure.
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OpenAI spent billions on training infrastructure. Two Aussie brothers made AI training 30x faster ~ with $500K total.
Meet Daniel & Michael Han
Brothers from Sydney, Australia Daniel was an engineer at NVIDIA Sped up the t-SNE algorithm 2000x. Cut SVD memory in half. Found and fixed 20+ bugs in Meta’s Llama, Google’s Gemma, Mistral, and Phi Big AI labs missed bugs in their own models. He caught them. Started Unsloth in December 2023 with his brother Michael Built tools that make LLM fine-tuning 2-30x faster, with 70-90% less memory Released it 100% open source. Free for everyone.
64,000+ GitHub stars 10 million model downloads every month NASA and Canva use their code Raised only $500K total in seed funding Got into Y Combinator S24 Led by two brothers with a small team of 8 shipping code
While big labs burn billions, they made AI accessible to everyone.
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