holy shit... Hugging Face cooked again! 🔥 they just dropped a free blog (BOOK) that covers the no-bs reality of building SOTA models. i haven't seen any lab/researcher go into the real decisions behind the LLM research and its nuances. this is literally a gem. Syllabus: → Training compass: why → what → how → Every big model starts with a small ablation → Designing the model architecture → The art of data curation → The training marathon → Beyond base models — post-training in 2025 → Infrastructure - the unsung hero skimming through the blog, this is incredibly detailed just like their ultrascale playbook. i'm gonna read this and share more about it in the coming days. Read here: