Simon Willison on Nostr: Mr. Chatterbox is a new 2GB nanochat model trained from scratch by Trip Venturella on ...
Mr. Chatterbox is a new 2GB nanochat model trained from scratch by Trip Venturella on "28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899" - I released an llm-mrchatterbox plugin which can run it locally on my Mac
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/Published at
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