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  <h1>🧠 Opus Research</h1>
  <p><strong>Training AI models from scratch, one parameter at a time.</strong></p>
  <p><em>"We stand at the right place at the right time."</em></p>
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## 👋 About Us

We're two teenage AI enthusiasts (ages 15 & 17) passionate about understanding AI from the ground up. Instead of just using pre-trained models, we build them ourselves.

## 🚀 Our Models

| Model | Parameters | Architecture | Status |
|-------|-----------|--------------|--------|
| [Opus 1.5](https://huggingface.co/opus-research/opus-1.5) | 0.88B | LLaMA-style | ✅ Released |
| Opus 2.0 | 3B+ | LLaMA + Reasoning | 🔜 Coming Soon |

## 🔬 Research Focus

- **Training from scratch** - No pre-trained weights, 100% original
- **Chain-of-thought reasoning** - Teaching models to think before answering
- **Efficient architectures** - Sub-3B models that run on consumer GPUs

## 📊 Opus 1.5 Highlights

- **0.88 billion parameters**
- **~2 GB VRAM** for inference
- **42 hours** training on 2x RTX 4090
- **LLaMA architecture** with RoPE, SwiGLU, GQA, FlashAttention-2

## 🔗 Links

- 📦 [Opus 1.5 on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/opus-research/opus-1.5)

## ⚡ Powered By

- ❤️ Two teenagers who should probably be doing homework
- 🎮 Two RTX 4090s that haven't known rest since December 2025
- 🔥 Questionable GPU thermals
- 📊 A concerning amount of time staring at loss curves
- 💡 48GB of VRAM
- ⚡ ~847 kWh of electricity we'll never get back
- 💸 Our parents' electricity bill
- 🤔 The firm belief that we could've just used ChatGPT

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  <p><em>But where's the fun in that?</em></p>
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