34 points mrashad74 1 hour ago 10 comments

mrashad74 1 hour ago | parent

Recently I started this open source project at my AI company, where I'm trying to make LLMs working

Now Reached 16B models running on iPad Air 1st gen and xiaomi tv box, both have less than 1GB of usable memory, and reached some decent speeds given the hardware.

I'm open sourcing the effort done, kernels developed and results for everyone to re-produce and push more, also the modified models are on hugging face : https://huggingface.co/hyperionaidev

I want a more challenging device, what do you think?

post-it 30 minutes ago | parent

> I want a more challenging device, what do you think?

One of those vapes with a screen on it.

mrashad74 16 minutes ago | parent

challenge accepted.

fredley 6 minutes ago | parent

> a more challenging device

A Playdate

shujito 6 minutes ago | parent

perhaps the pi 1st/2nd gen?

I'd thought of the ESP32 devices but their RAM is too small

dava96 44 minutes ago | parent

This is really cool man. I like this on going trend of resurrecting old tech with AI and this is yet another avenue to explore.

I'd be interested in seeing some older flag ship mobile devices

mrashad74 30 minutes ago | parent

I have a few phones and tablets laying around, will try to play with..

ForHackernews 14 minutes ago | parent

This is great. I've recently been playing with repurposing some old thin clients as homelab Linux machines

Not my site, but same idea: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

All this old/obsolete gear is plenty capable when used with the right software.

dava96 5 minutes ago | parent

Out of interest, what have you been doing with them?

jedbrooke 5 minutes ago | parent

in a similar vein, somebody got tinystories running on the nintendo wii, including gpu acceleration [0].

0: https://github.com/brysontang/iiama2.c