Carloscodix/qapla

A char-level transformer trained from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3. Not inference: the chip runs the full training loop, with backprop written by hand in C.

67 best points · 20 comments · 1 Hacker News post · 89 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

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• An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3 (67 points, 20 comments, by pavelai, 2026-08-05)