I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices

(github.com)

57 points | by mrashad74 2 hours ago

7 comments

  • yjftsjthsd-h 8 minutes ago
    It's technically sweet regardless, so don't take this as even a little bit of negative pushback, but I am curious what the utility of these small models is? Are they smart enough to be useful on practical tasks? What are people doing with them?
    • sebazzz 1 minute ago
      Also curious on this. They are too dumb to use with tools and if you ask it how to bake a pancake you only get rubbish.
  • jedbrooke 38 minutes ago
    in a similar vein, somebody got tinystories LLM running on the nintendo wii, including gpu acceleration [0].

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

  • mrashad74 2 hours ago
    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?

    • shujito 39 minutes ago
      perhaps the pi 1st/2nd gen?

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

      • gabucino 18 minutes ago
        Pi 1 is too easy. My PicoLM [fork] already runs on it.

        It also runs on MS-DOS 80386 2MB RAM, so...

        And iPhone 1. And Digital UNIX.

    • fredley 39 minutes ago
      > a more challenging device

      A Playdate

    • post-it 1 hour ago
      > I want a more challenging device, what do you think?

      One of those vapes with a screen on it.

  • mkanephl 13 minutes ago
    ESP P4 or ESP S31?
  • dava96 1 hour ago
    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 1 hour ago
      I have a few phones and tablets laying around, will try to play with..
  • ForHackernews 47 minutes ago
    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 38 minutes ago
      Out of interest, what have you been doing with them?
      • ForHackernews 4 minutes ago
        Running a pihole, a WeeWx weather station, a NAS backup server, a wireguard VPN, Zot container registry.
  • gabucino 41 minutes ago
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