MakeUseOf: I didn’t think an ESP32 could run an LLM — until it did. “A developer going by slvDev shipped a project that ...

MakeUseOf: I didn’t think an ESP32 could run an LLM — until it did. “A developer going by slvDev shipped a project that runs a 28.9-million-parameter model on the same class of $8 chip, at around 9.5 tokens per second, with nothing sent to a server. That’s roughly a hundred times more parameters than Bennett’s model, on similar hardware. What changed is the assumption that every parameter […] https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/18/makeuseof-i-didnt-think-an-esp32-could-run-an-llm-until-it-did/

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