How a model learns, step by step an interactive explainer of LLM training and alignment

The Emergence Machine · instrument

Training is one small move repeated: guess, measure the error, nudge the numbers. These six views let you scrub through a real model’s saved training run, watch a tiny model cross the line from autocomplete to copying in your browser, compare a base model with a chat model token by token, train a model on your own taste, and make the basic move of training yourself. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you do is sent anywhere.

The models here are toys, built to show one idea each. The raw-versus-aligned view uses measurements taken offline on a real 4-billion-parameter model (Qwen3-4B, base and post-trained); the numbers are in the text. Your clicks and choices stay in your browser.