They Trained an AI for Just $146 — I Tested It!

Laghu is a 152M-parameter chat model its team says cost $146 to pretrain. I ran it on my RTX 4060 laptop, tested 13 prompts, and show every answer, including the failures. Chapters 0:00 The $146 shock 0:17 The pain point 0:31 The plan 0:54 Intro from me 0:59 Who made Laghu 1:33 What the $146 bought 2:09 The three training stages 2:28 Architecture and memory 3:03 Four ways to run it 3:26 Install with Ollama 4:02 Speed on an RTX 4060 4:15 Tests: maths, puzzles, thinking, facts, code, Hindi, memory, format 7:02 My scoreboard 7:26 Limits of my test 7:55 What the developers report 8:34 What went wr