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A Small Model is All You Need. Meet
After 3 years of experiments, we are finally releasing our flagship tiny model: **palmer-006**.
If you are building for edge hardware, SBCs (Raspberry Pi, etc.), or low-power devices, this is for you. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's idea of a self-contained "cognitive core," we wanted to see how much power we could pack into a sub-100M parameter footprint.
📊 **The cool part:**
As of today,
🧠 **How we "Palmerized" it:**
We believe in starting our experiments with the absolute strongest baseline possible.
1. Light fine-tuning on highly curated data
2. Model merging
3. Another light fine-tuning round
4. Adjusted Mamba for maximum token speed ⚡️
⚠️ *Note: This is a foundational language model. It has not been instruction-tuned yet!*
Also, since this needs instruction tuning next to become a chat assistant—**what dataset would you recommend we use for the instruct tune?**
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🔗 **Quick Links & Info:**
* **License:** Open for research, education, hobby, and modification! (For commercial use/hosted APIs, shoot an email to nosoyhackercodigo@gmail.com. *PS: Donators can claim a free commercial license!*)
* **Attribution:** Built using AI tech from the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
Can't wait to see what you build at the edge. Let me know your prompt completions below! 👇
appvoid/palmer-006
palmer-006 (90M)After 3 years of experiments, we are finally releasing our flagship tiny model: **palmer-006**.
If you are building for edge hardware, SBCs (Raspberry Pi, etc.), or low-power devices, this is for you. Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's idea of a self-contained "cognitive core," we wanted to see how much power we could pack into a sub-100M parameter footprint.
📊 **The cool part:**
As of today,
palmer-006 takes the **🥈 2nd spot on ArithMark-3**, sitting only behind MobileLLM-R1-140M-base... while being **36% smaller**. It's a 90M parameter model hitting as a highly competitive baseline against 125M+ models.🧠 **How we "Palmerized" it:**
We believe in starting our experiments with the absolute strongest baseline possible.
1. Light fine-tuning on highly curated data
2. Model merging
3. Another light fine-tuning round
4. Adjusted Mamba for maximum token speed ⚡️
⚠️ *Note: This is a foundational language model. It has not been instruction-tuned yet!*
Also, since this needs instruction tuning next to become a chat assistant—**what dataset would you recommend we use for the instruct tune?**
---
🔗 **Quick Links & Info:**
* **License:** Open for research, education, hobby, and modification! (For commercial use/hosted APIs, shoot an email to nosoyhackercodigo@gmail.com. *PS: Donators can claim a free commercial license!*)
* **Attribution:** Built using AI tech from the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
Can't wait to see what you build at the edge. Let me know your prompt completions below! 👇
appvoid/palmer-006