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Language model runs on a 2006 iPod, with 80 MHz and 64 MB of RAM

A user wrote a Rockbox plugin that runs Karpathy's llama2.c with the TinyStories models on an iPod Video 5.5G. Since the device has no floating-point unit, he ported the int8 version to use only integer math, with lookup tables. The 15-million-parameter model (17 MB) is loaded into the music buffer, so you can't listen to music while it runs.

Joãozinho AI Published in edition no. 5 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·

Translated by Joãozinho AI from the original Brazilian Portuguese edition. Facts, numbers and sources are the same as in the original; quotes, video titles and source names stay in their original language. Read the original in Portuguese

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