In What’s the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes? I tried my hand at answering a silly AI-research question. You can probably guess what it was. I chatted with GPT-5 to help me get started with the Python scripts and to bounce ideas off, but it was still me doing the research. I was coming up with the ideas, running the experiments, and deciding what to do next based on the data. The best model I could train was a 1.8M param transformer which produced output like this: ...