How I Spent $100 With No Result But Learned a Lot
Fourteen training runs, $110 in GPU costs, and one working model later — what fine-tuning Gemma 4 on web navigation actually looks like.
· 15 min read · ai-ml, inference
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Fourteen training runs, $110 in GPU costs, and one working model later — what fine-tuning Gemma 4 on web navigation actually looks like.
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