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A solar founder from Kazakhstan just trained an 8 billion parameter model on a laptop GPU that costs less than a PlayStation. His name is Alpamaiz Makajan. The tool is called "Soup" and it kills the exact reason most people never fine-tune anything. Renting cloud GPUs, writing training scripts, debugging for days, then giving up and using someone else's model. "Soup" collapses all of that into one YAML file and one command. You describe what you want the model to do, point it at your data, run Soup Train, batch size, quantization, Laura settings, handled. It runs at 119 tokens a second on a 4GB RTX 3050. Then someone lent him 8H 100s and the laptop numbers reproduced exactly. It hit the front page of Hacker News and the best part, it's completely free. Want the repo? Comment "Soup" and I'll send it straight to you.

A solar founder from Kazakhstan just trained an 8 billion parameter model on a laptop GPU that costs less than a PlayStation. His name is Alpamaiz Makajan. The…