Microsoft's Windows 98 can run Meta's Llama AI model on just 128MB of RAM: "We could have been talking to our computers for 30 years now."

Workers put together copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 at the packaging line.

Generative AI has undoubtedly taken center stage in modern computing, and Microsoft hasn't pulled punches while deeply integrating its Copilot AI across its tech stack, especially in Windows 11.

In a bizarre mix of nostalgia and reverse engineering, Andreessen Horowitz's co-founder and well-known entrepreneur, Marc Andreessen, recently revealed that a small Llama AI model from Meta successfully ran on a Windows 98 PC with only 128MB of RAM (via Money Control).