# A compact conversational language model that chats in plain English and writes Python

> Source: <https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/30/a-compact-conversational-language-model-that-chats-in-plain-english-and-writes-python/>
> Published: 2026-10-30 14:26:56+00:00

Kristijonas Adomaitis has published Kadmos-1 on GitHub, a decoder-only transformer language model with 45.8 million parameters that holds a short conversation and writes small Python functions. The architecture, tokenizer and weights were built in the repository from random initialisation, not fine-tuned from an existing pretrained model. The model file is about 110 lines of PyTorch. […]