Well done. $20k? That's insane. I remember tinyllama back in the day (2023) was trained on $40k and could barely form coherent sentences.

Are pictures easier than English, or did the methods advance so much?

Edit: I guess I should have said, are pictures plus English easier than English!

>The text representation comes from a frozen Qwen3.5-4B model, which we read at layers 7, 15 and 27 (its three full-attention layers). We concatenate and project these representations into the text refiner.

Still, as a layperson I would have expected text to be simpler than images, so I'm still amazed by this.