Show HN: Rei: ~370k params LM living inside a Game Boy Color

Category: ai-ml

Tags: gameboy, assembly, language-model, edge-ai, retro-computing, tinystories

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 9, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 4)

ChatGBC runs a 374K-parameter language model entirely on a Game Boy Color in hand-written assembly, achieving 0.46s/token with a bit-exact integer twin for testing. The project includes Rei, a conversational model that remembers your name and persists conversations across power-off, showcasing extreme optimization and hardware-software co-design.

Target audience: embedded systems engineers, retro computing enthusiasts, ML researchers interested in extreme quantization and optimization

Repository: https://github.com/crashtheuniverse/chatgbc · Python · MIT · 37 stars

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