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A ternary model runs on a 1980s home computer that cannot multiply
Claim
Matt Beton fit a ternary BitNet model into a 1980s BBC Micro, packing 9KB of code and 13KB of weights into 25KB of memory on a 1975 chip that cannot multiply, and it writes real text.
Reported metric: 25KB total
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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