Update First Break AI — Cohort 01 is now archived. The journey continues at FBA Lab.

First Break AI → FBA Lab

The cohort has evolved.

Cohort 01 started as a live + async cohort. The signal was clear: serious learners need a better way to touch real AI systems directly — not more passive sessions. So the focus is moving to FBA Lab.

Start with FBA Lab →

What is FBA Lab?

FBA Lab is the new hands-on front door to real AI systems. It brings together everything that was missing from a passive cohort session.

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Real model code

Read and run the actual inference and training code — not pseudocode, not slides. The model is the lesson.

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Synced architecture diagrams

Diagrams that move with the code. See the attention heads, the KV cache, the weight tensors — in sync with what the terminal is doing.

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Terminal logs, live

Watch a model load, tokenize, decode, and generate — line by line. Not a recording. The actual output.

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No GPU, no setup, no account

Start immediately. Nothing to install. Nothing to configure. No credits to burn. The barrier to entry is zero.

What stays online

Cohort 01 is archived, not deleted. Everything built during the cohort remains accessible.

Roadmap — six-step learning path from first commit to capstone
Lessons — HuggingFace, Qwen3, inference deep dives, training fundamentals
Office Hours archive — every recorded session with interactive transcripts
Blog — guides on GGUF, training curves, model formats
Office Hours — focused sessions run when there is real work to review