It turns out you can train a 1b model at almost 1000 tokens/s on a m5 max laptop. As a personal experiment, I've been asking Sol for synthetic training data and synthetic agentic training data (model distillation in it's purest form), plus modified opencode, codex transcripts etc for training data, and nobody's even paying me to do it. If I'm doing it has a hobby, you can bet industrial users are doing it.