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---
title: PicoChat
emoji: 🤖
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: indigo
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.42.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit
short_description: PicoChat frontend.
---

# 🤖 PicoChat

> A 335M parameter language model trained from scratch on a MacBook Air M2 in ~7 days.

This Space is the interactive frontend for **PicoChat**. The model weights are hosted separately to optimize for bandwidth and storage.

🔗 **Model Weights:** [huggingface.co/MGow/PicoChat](https://huggingface.co/MGow/PicoChat)

## 📊 Model Stats

| Feature | Details |
| :--- | :--- |
| **Architecture** | Depth-16 GPT-style Transformer |
| **Parameters** | ~335M |
| **Training Data** | 377M tokens (FineWeb-Edu + Synthetic) |
| **Hardware** | MacBook Air M2 (16GB RAM) |
| **Training Cost** | 5kWh of electricity |

**PicoChat** is a "lab notebook" proof-of-concept for training capable small language models (SLMs) on consumer hardware. It can chat, solve basic math problems, and has a quirky personality.