Unlike the widespread view of high requirements for computer resources for artificial intelligence models, the curious 20 -year -old Apple Powerbook G4 was able to start a modern productive neural network on its laptop. Engineer Programmer Andrew Rossignol said how the productive AI was able to work on the old device on his blog this week. About it reports Macrumors broadcast.
The PowerBook G4, which was released in 2005, is equipped with a PowerPC G4 processor with a 1.5 GHz and 1 GB RAM clock frequency. Despite such modest features compared to modern standards, Rossinol managed to start the output of the Lama 2 model on this rare laptop from Meta (extremist and prohibited in Russia).
For the experiment, the engineer was carrying an open -source project Llama2.c, and then accelerated the work by using the PowerPC vector expansion called Altitec.
It should be noted that this for the first time that enthusiasts do not start productive AI models in old equipment. At the beginning of the news, such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, such as similar experiments were reports.
Previously President of Apple Praised China Ai Deepseek.
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Source: Gazeta
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