SMRTR AIJul 26, 2026Daily.dev

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

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A 28.9 million parameter language model now runs entirely on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, generating text at 9.5 tokens per second with no internet connection. By storing 25 million parameters in flash memory instead of RAM, using Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, this setup holds roughly 100 times more parameters than any previous chip of this size.

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