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Microcontrollers Now Run a Diffusion Model and a 289M-Parameter LLM

Original: Microcontrollers Now Run a Diffusion Model and 289M LLM

Developers have shown that microcontrollers, the tiny low-power chips found in embedded devices, can run both a diffusion model and a large language model with 289 million parameters. The work demonstrates that generative AI is moving beyond servers and phones into small, cheap hardware, a shift that could bring on-device AI to everyday electronics.

Why now: Running modern generative AI on minimal hardware challenges assumptions about how much computing power AI needs, making it a striking technical milestone.

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