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Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
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TechCrunch AI · 9h ago
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I trained a 348M model trained from scratch on 22.7B tokens that does 14 digit arithmetic
Source: r/MachineLearning
September 10, 2026 · 2d ago
Summary
Hello this is my fifth small language model I've made and apart of my third series and it has been a lot of work but it payed off: **348M parameters, 22. 7B tokens**, then fine-tuned into a math...
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