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Edge Dispatch: The $8 AI Chip Grows a Coffee Habit: ESP32 Tiny-LLM Trick Gets a Second Model
Edge AI4 min read

Edge Dispatch: The $8 AI Chip Grows a Coffee Habit: ESP32 Tiny-LLM Trick Gets a Second Model

A new 'Barista' model and a closer look at Google's Per-Layer Embeddings trick show what running an LLM on a microcontroller can and can't do.

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The Edge AI Compute Ladder: What Actually Runs on Every Board From $5 to $600
Edge AI8 min read

The Edge AI Compute Ladder: What Actually Runs on Every Board From $5 to $600

A $5 Pico 2 writes TinyStories. A $15 Pi Zero 2 W runs SmolLM2-135M. A $299 RISC-V board claims 30B. What AI really fits at every rung of the edge hardware ladder.

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Running an LLM on an $8 Microcontroller: What's Real in 2026
Edge AI9 min read

Running an LLM on an $8 Microcontroller: What's Real in 2026

In July 2026 a 28.9-million-parameter LLM ran fully on-device on an $8 ESP32-S3 at almost 10 tokens per second. Here's how the trick works, who built it, what's hype, and what you can actually build with a microcontroller LLM today.

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