Show HN: AQ – a from-scratch 1B academic LLM by a 2-person team in India

Aug 3, 2026 · 9:47 AM UTC ·2 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 3 views

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Raising the Academic Quotient of every student. AQ is a 1.26B-parameter academic tutor built completely from scratch by Zyora Labs — proprietary architecture, own training code (pure PyTorch), own tokenizer, own data pipeline, own tutor fine-tune. This is the tutor (instruct) model: it answers student questions directly with explanations, numbered steps, and worked examples.

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▪Raising the Academic Quotient of every student.
▪AQ is a 1.26B-parameter academic tutor built completely from scratch by Zyora Labs — proprietary architecture, own training code (pure PyTorch), own tokenizer, own data pipeline, own tutor fine-tune.
▪This is the tutor (instruct) model: it answers student questions directly with explanations, numbered steps, and worked examples.

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zyoralabs / AQ-academic-ai like 0 Text Generation Safetensors English Tamil Hindi aq education academic tutor concept-first india from-scratch custom_code License: apache-2.0 Model card Files Files and versions xet Community Copy to bucket new AQ-Academic-AI — Academic Quotient v1 (Tutor) Training Prompt format Architecture (proprietary, from scratch) Benchmarks (0-shot, lm-evaluation-harness) Intended use Team About AQ-Academic-AI — Academic Quotient v1 (Tutor) AQ (Academic Quotient) — India's Concept-First Academic AI. v1 now live. Raising the Academic Quotient of every student. AQ is a 1.26B-parameter academic tutor built completely from scratch by Zyora Labs — proprietary architecture, own training code (pure PyTorch), own tokenizer, own data pipeline, own tutor fine-tune.

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