Hobbyist trains 1.57B-parameter Dreamer 4 world model for under $150

A Reddit user trained a 1.57B-parameter Dreamer 4 world model from scratch for under $150, building on Genie's architecture. The first attempt failed because Genie's unsupervised 8-code actions gave too loose control, so they scrapped it and started over.
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