17:01
2026-08-20
promptcube3.com
machine-learning
Colab free tier killed my 7B fine-tune β here's the autopsy
A developer's attempt to fine-tune Mistral-7B-v0.1 on Google Colab's free tier failed due to out-of-memory errors and a 2-hour session limit, with the runtime disconnecting at step 200 and a MemoryErrβ¦