<ul><li>Software engineer Andrew Rossignol successfully ran generative AI on a 20-year-old PowerBook G4.</li><li>The PowerBook G4 had a 1.5GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 1GB of RAM.</li><li>By porting the open-source llama2.c project and using the PowerPC vector extension AltiVec, Rossignol achieved inference with Meta's LLM model Llama 2 on the laptop.</li><li>Other similar cases of generative AI models running on outdated devices have been reported in the past.</li></ul>

Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4

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