OpenAI spent billions on training infrastructure.
Two Aussie brothers made AI training 30x faster ~ with $500K total. 🤯
Meet Daniel & Michael Han 🇦🇺
> Brothers from Sydney, Australia
> Daniel was an engineer at NVIDIA
> Sped up the t-SNE algorithm 2000x. Cut SVD memory in half.
> Found and fixed 20 bugs in Meta’s Llama, Google’s Gemma, Mistral, and Phi
> Big AI labs missed bugs in their own models. He caught them.
> Started Unsloth in December 2023 with his brother Michael
> Built tools that make LLM fine-tuning 2-30x faster, with 70-90% less memory
Released it 100% open source. Free for everyone. 🚀
> 64,000 GitHub stars
> 10 million model downloads every month
> NASA and Canva use their code
> Raised only $500K total in seed funding
> Got into Y Combinator S24
> Led by two brothers with a small team of 8 shipping code
While big labs burn billions, they made AI accessible to everyone.
Absolute Legends 🐐