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Researcher gets 29 million parameter model running on eight-dollar microcontroller
A developer has succeeded in running an LLM with 28.9 million parameters on an ESP32 microcontroller that costs around eight dollars. The project has been made available as open source on GitHub.
WHY IT MATTERS
This demonstrates that advanced AI functionality can be deployed to inexpensive, low-power hardware – opening up possibilities for AI applications on IoT devices without network connectivity or cloud services.
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