I can say with a solid underlined statement: The model DID WORK.
The preliminary chat amoe arm trained atop responded. The conversation was shallow but the conversation wasn't simple noise or chaos, the responses were confidently wrong, and effectively related to the questions and answers.
The structure in the huggingface space DOES NOT HAVE this chat arm yet, but I plan to have this fully functional and operational by tomorrow evening. Each arm needs to be tailored to the model because the model is brand new, the deviations from the core to the pretrain are still high, so the structure needs to be aligned with the AMOE arm correctly.
This is a sample from the arm based on 21.9k steps, roughly 11 billion tokens trained I think.

The core was not trained with chat, so she requires an anchored mixture of experts leg or a lora trained atop. She's quite compliant, so if you wish to train a lora she'll listen.
For now she's a next byte prediction auto-complete model, a pretrained trunk capable of AMOE expansion directly.
Once the pretrain concludes I'll prepare 2 chat arms.
After an anealment of around 2b tokens of various behavioral attunements, concepts, conversational learning, and so on; the stage 1 variant will have 2 core chat arms for direct huggingface space conversation.
Pre anealment chat arm, and post anealment chat arm. This will allow a structured fusion between the two behaviors and the necessary outcomes, creating a unique and interpretable duality between pure pretraining with a chat module, and post pretraining scattered conceptual finetuning with a chat arm. Post will essentially understand more about conversation, while the pre will have less knowledge and more a crash course in utilization.
I'll name them accordingly when the time comes, but they will both be Beatrix variants.
After this process we will begin forming candidate arm extensions for behavior. Concepts like wikipedia recall, toolchain utilization, mathematics, coding basics, and more. Very small pieces of the information for recall with the KV cache.
How effective they will be is another story. The tests and utilizations of the outcomes will show which arms are to be integrated into the larger form on pretrain. In other words, which arms will intentionally have their finetuning directly tied to the core and become post-train guarantees that don't decouple.
Stay tuned my friends. She's just getting started.
I have a list of upcoming prototype arms.
- Deterministic chat - Can we speak to the pretraining directly with an AMOE arm?
- Retokenization arm - Can we retokenize and cluster the bytes into BPE?
- Arbitration arm - Can we teach a small arbitration arm to communicate with another system?
- Mathematics arm - Multiple mathematics formats within an arm cluster.
This model will run on CPU. I ran it on windows 10 with my 12 core, roughly 10 bytes/s give or take, a fair prediction ratio for cpu.