AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB of RAM — Open-source AI flagbearers demonstrate Llama 2 LLM in extreme conditions

Running Llama LLM on a Pentium II.

EXO Labs has penned a detailed blog post about running Llama on Windows 98 and demonstrated a rather powerful AI large language model (LLM) running on a 26-year-old Windows 98 Pentium II PC in a brief video on social media. The video shows an ancient Elonex Pentium II @ 350 MHz booting into Windows 98, and then EXO then fires up its custom pure C inference engine based on Andrej Karpathy's Llama2.c and asks the LLM to generate a story about Sleepy Joe. Amazingly, it works, with the story being generated at a very respectable pace.

LLM running on Windows 98 PC26 year old hardware with Intel Pentium II CPU and 128MB RAM.Uses llama98.c, our custom pure C inference engine based on @karpathy llama2.cCode and DIY guide 👇 pic.twitter.com/pktC8hhvvaDecember 28, 2024