Community interest in dense 9B model

A Reddit user says they have a ~9.4B dense model ready to train and plan to open-source the code and data. They claim it can run on a single GPU, uses Llama 3 tokenizer and several engineering techniques, and are soliciting community interest and compute resources.

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