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Carloscodix/qapla

A char-level transformer trained from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3. Not inference: the chip runs the full training loop, with backprop written by hand in C.

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How fast Carloscodix/qapla is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Sep 3 – Oct 26, 2026

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Mentions and achievements

Where people are talking about Carloscodix/qapla, and every badge it has earned
  1. Aug 54 posts

    • Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS (

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    • Full training loop of a transformer running on an $8 microcontroller. Not inference.

      Read full on Reddit

      r/LocalLLM

    • An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

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      r/hypeurls

    • An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

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  2. Aug 41 post2 posts

    • I trained a tiny transformer entirely on an $8 ESP32-S3 — no PyTorch, no autograd, full code open source

      Read full on Reddit

      r/OpenSourceAI

    • I trained a transformer from scratch on an ESP32-S3. Not inference, actual on-chip training with hand-written backprop.

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      r/esp32

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