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An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3
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A developer trained a ~319,000-parameter transformer from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3, learning Klingon character-by-character. The chip runs the full forward pass, backprop, and weight updates on board with no PyTorch. Training takes hours, and the model learns structure, not meaning.
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