How To Train Your LLM 🐉

A hands-on beginner workshop on what actually happens inside an LLM.
⚡ Sponsored by Modal
You’ve used ChatGPT. Maybe you’ve played with prompts, APIs or open models.
But what does it actually mean to train a language model?
In this 4-hour workshop, we’ll go from a tiny model that barely knows how to speak to a real pretrained LLM that we can fine-tune ourselves.
No AI magic. No 80-slide lecture. We’ll actually build things.
What we’ll do
Turn text into tokens and see how next-token prediction works
Train a tiny language model from scratch
See how a Transformer improves on our first…

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