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Running a 28.9M Parameter LLM on an $8 Microcontroller - Hackster.io

Published by Hackster.io By Nick Bild · 1 August 2026 at 23:18
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What the report says

A developer borrowed a trick from Google's Gemma models to fit a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 ESP32 chip.

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