BananaMind 2 Pro is training! The current checkpoint (ONLY 20% DONE) GETS #6 On the entire Open SLM Leaderboard. We are going to release the first public preview on August 2-4 (estimated from speed)
We're excited to announce BananaMind 2V, our small vision model series! These models are NOT released yet. We will release them in mid-august! BananaMind 2V will include: BananaMind 2V 256M, the flagship based on BananaMind 2 Pro (BananaMind 2 Pro is not released yet). BananaMind 2V 100M, our mid model, based on BananaMind 2 Medium. BananaMind 2V 50M, our smallest vision model, based on BananaMind 2 Mini. These are currently unreleased and will release in mid-august. Our training will start after BananaMind 2 Pro has finished training.
Introducing Unsloth for AMD ๐ You can now train & run LLMs on your AMD hardware
โข We collaborated with AMD to enable you to train & run 500+ models on AMD GPUs โข Works on Windows, WSL, Linux โข Train Qwen, Gemma on just 3GB VRAM
A small gift for anyone building or studying foundation models.
Most "open" models hand you the weights and stop there. With Aether-7B-5Attn we wanted to hand over the whole thing โ so you can actually learn from it, reproduce it, and build on it: the data recipe, the training code, every hyperparameter, the complete logs, and the intermediate checkpoints. All Apache-2.0, reproducible byte-for-byte.
What you can do with it: ๐ Rebuild it from scratch, or fork the recipe for your own model ๐ฌ Study a real heterogeneous-attention MoE โ 49 layers place 5 attention mechanisms on a 7ร7 Latin square, arranged as a clean, attributable ablation ๐ Trace training dynamics across the released checkpoints (110k / 115k / 162k)
It's a modest 6.59B model, and an honest one โ the limitations (no KV-cache in this build, small scale) are written right in the card. We're not claiming it's special. If any piece of it saves you time or teaches you something, that's exactly what we hoped for. ๐ค
Last month we released PixelModel โ a neural network whose weights are literally the pixels of a PNG. It was a toy: 202,752 parameters, welded to 32ร32 output, trained on six solid-color swatches. It scored FID 566.84 on the Tiny-T2I-Leaderboard, mostly by producing the same yellow noise for every prompt.
Today we're releasing PixelModel v1. It is 8.5ร smaller โ 23,747 parameters โ and it beats v0 on both benchmark metrics while being trained on 20,000 real MS-COCO caption/image pairs instead of six color swatches. The entire model now fits in a 160ร149 PNG.
That image is not a visualization of the model. It is the model. All 23,747 weights, one per pixel.
## The catch A 23K-parameter model does not draw sandwiches. With ~1 parameter per training image, the loss-minimizing behavior is to output the average of all plausible images for a caption โ caption-conditioned color, light, and layout statistics. Food prompts come out warm and brown; sky prompts come out cool and bright. That is the ceiling for this size class, and we'd rather show it than crop around it.
# cherry on top ๐ The model generates 600 images (cpu) in 5 (five) seconds. Thats 5000 images in 24 seconds on cpu. The model trained on cpu for just 30 minutes.