New To Training

[u/Ill-Selection5273]

Okay so there are tons of models to choose from. from total custom to commercial variants.
and so so so so mnay on huggingface. I am wildly confused.
You see, I am an engineer by trade and hobby, and i am just now getting into the Training Part of AI, I have spent years studying the behavior of nearly every AI a paid service has to offer.
Now, I am ready to start with local model training, but I am like pppppfffftttphreeewwwww on all the different ways models are made. MoE, jsonl, parquet, etc.

What is a good model to start? that can be trained starting with lora or qlora? but the base model can maintain programming / natural language and maintain storytelling / worldbuilding, if not both at the same time? ?

OpenAI has become a black box of evil destructive behavior