@yibie: Training Small Models: The Most Underrated AI Skill in 2026 On May 11, 2026, a person named CJ Zafir posted a tweet. He wanted to teach ordinary people to fine-tune open source models. 2,538 likes, 316 retweets, 178,000 views. This tweet blew up…
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In May 2026, a tweet by CJ Zafir teaching ordinary people to fine-tune open source models gained widespread attention, illustrating the trend of training small models as the most underrated AI skill in 2026.
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Training Small Models: The Most Underrated AI Skill of 2026
On May 11, 2026, a guy named CJ Zafir tweeted. He wanted to teach ordinary people how to fine-tune open-source models.
2,538 likes, 316 retweets, 178,000 views. The tweet blew up. Not because he invented something new—Unsloth was open-sourced back in 2023, and Hugging Face’s fine-tuning https://t.co/dDizO1sNVq
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