What other people have written or measured about Atome LM, each one linked to its source. Nothing here is quoted from memory: a missing quote means we could not re-read the source on the day this page was built.
Press coverage
“Atome LM”, a language model that runs on a microcontroller costing a few hundred yen, is released
数百円のマイコン上で動く言語モデル「Atome LM」が公開
Atome LMは、944000個のパラメーターを持つ、極めて小さな言語モデルだ。
News item. Covers the ternary quantization, the 271 KB footprint and the Apache-2.0 release.
A Chinese-language write-up of Atome LM on CSDN
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Independent reproduction
The most useful thing that has happened to Atome LM is not an article: it is u/aquoad, who built it and ran it on their own six-year-old ESP32-S2 board and posted the serial log.
This is pretty cool. The full model runs (but comically slowly) on a 6 yr old ESP32-S2 board with external SPI PSRAM, though I did have to turn off the idle task watchdog.
That is the only kind of evidence that really counts for an embedded project: somebody else, on their own hardware, without our help. The full thread is on r/esp32 (269 upvotes).
Community reaction
Definitely gonna try this. Thanks much.
As an embedded systems student, I would like to say thank you for your good work and keep up 🔥
wow i need to try this, honestly it's pretty impressive how an LLM can run on a microcontroller
The fact it can detect bad sensor readings is a cool use case for a model this small. Nice use of it — good job guys :p
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. 64 ESP32's and you got your 60 t/s for $300!
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Where the artifacts are
GitHub
Engine, training path and export format, Apache-2.0.
Hugging Face
The trained checkpoints.
Zenodo
Citable DOI for the release.
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