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2026-05-13 / reddit-researcherReal Transformer Language Model Running Locally on a Stock Game Boy Color — No Cloud, No PCA developer got Andrej Karpathy's TinyStories-260K model running entirely on a stock Game Boy Color with INT8 weights on a custom ROM cartridge — no phone, PC, Wi-Fi, or cloud inference. 827 upvotes and 60 comments on r/LocalLLaMA. While not practically useful, it's a striking demonstration of how far inference optimization has come: a transformer model running on 1990s 8-bit hardware with 32KB of RAM. The project showcases extreme quantization and embedded deployment techniques.
2026-04-06 / reddit-researcherLLM Running on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32MB RAM: Karpathy's 260K TinyStories on 233MHz PowerPCA r/LocalLLaMA post (1,021 upvotes, 59 comments) documents running Andrej Karpathy's 260K TinyStories model (Llama 2 architecture, ~1MB checkpoint) on a stock 1998 iMac G3 Rev B — 233MHz PowerPC 750 processor, 32MB RAM, Mac OS 8.5, with no upgrades. The project demonstrates the absolute minimum hardware floor for LLM inference and showcases how far model compression has come.

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Andrej Karpathy's TinyStories model (260K checkpoint, Llama 2 architecture) runs on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32MB RAM.
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Andrej Karpathy's TinyStories model (260K checkpoint, Llama 2 architecture) runs on a 1998 iMac G3 with 32MB RAM.
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