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PublishedSeptember 23, 2026 at 4:00 AM
ufakzeka-1: Building and Evaluating a 151M-Parameter Turkish Language Model from Scratch
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arXiv:2609.25081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe ufakzeka-1, a 151M-parameter (182M with embeddings) decoder-only Turkish language model pretrained from scratch on 13.5B tokens of openly licensed text and instruction-tuned for chat, at a total cost of about \$286 in cloud GPU, API and not
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