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Running MiniMind on RunPod: From Zero to a Chatting Model

The hands-on installment of the series: rent an RTX 3090 on RunPod (Secure Cloud $0.5/hr, Community Cloud $0.22/hr), follow the MiniMind README through pretrain (~1.21h) + SFT (~1.10h), spend roughly $0.55–1.50 USD total, and chat with your own 64M model trained from scratch in the terminal.

RunPod: GPU Pods and Serverless Endpoints Are Different Products

RunPod Pods fit interactive and persistent GPU work, while Serverless fits queued or load-balanced inference; choosing incorrectly mixes persistence, cold starts, and retry semantics.