Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic, ElectronJS) has released a free Mac app designed to help people build their own LLMs from scratch.
Summary
Felix Rieseberg, known for his work at Anthropic and on ElectronJS, has released a free Mac app that allows users to build their own large language models from scratch.
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