--- title: Carbon Footprint of LLM Fine Tuning — A Case Study description: The article presents surprising results from measuring the carbon emissions of instruction fine-tuning an LLM model called Munin-7b-alpha. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/carbon-footprint-of-llm-fine-tuning-a-case-study-j27ofp0pe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Carbon Footprint of LLM Fine Tuning — A Case Study | daily.dev og:description: The article presents surprising results from measuring the carbon emissions of instruction fine-tuning an LLM model called Munin-7b-alpha. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/carbon-footprint-of-llm-fine-tuning-a-case-study-j27ofp0pe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J27OfP0pE.png og:image:alt: Carbon Footprint of LLM Fine Tuning — A Case Study og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Carbon Footprint of LLM Fine Tuning — A Case Study **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The article presents surprising results from measuring the carbon emissions of instruction fine-tuning an LLM model called Munin-7b-alpha. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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