Why is there no community project for training your own LLM from scratch on consumer hardware?
Summary
A discussion on the lack of a community project for training LLMs from scratch on consumer hardware (8GB VRAM) using modern techniques like BitNet and Muon, proposing a collaborative effort to build one.
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