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A relay race of rented GPUs trained NanoColibri's 2.7B MoE for $200
NanoColibri-Instruct went from blank weights to a working 2.7B MoE for about $200. Volunteers passed a training baton on the Hugging Face Hub, one rented GPU at a time, with a compare-and-swap lease so no two people ever trained the same leg.
2026-08-04