arman-bd/guppylm
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Covered in week 2026-W16 · the 2026-04 report
A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish.
What guppylm is
GuppyLM is a tiny language model that pretends to be a fish named Guppy. It speaks in short, lowercase sentences about water, food, light, and tank life. It doesn't understand human abstractions like money, phones, or politics — and it's not trying to.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
Transcript
Training an LLM costs thousands and requires a massive GPU cluster. This one takes 5 minutes on free Colab. Guppy LM is a tiny 9M parameter language model trained from scratch that talks like a fish. It runs entirely in your browser as a 10MB web assembly file. No server, no API keys. Built with 60K synthetic conversations across 60 topics, it shows you exactly how transformers work without the black box mystery. Star it if this saved you money.
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