Mirendil releases Fern 0.1, a 10M-token context model
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Fern 0.1 is pretrained from scratch at 0.1–0.5T parameters with a context window of up to 10M tokens, roughly 23 MB or half a million lines of code. Mirendil says it was built by a single researcher for under $10M; access is listed as coming soon.
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