A research group called EXO Labs ran artificial intelligence based on Meta’s Llama language model on a computer with the Windows 98 operating system. A 26-year-old computer’s artificial intelligence model can perform many basic tasks.
Llama artificial intelligence turned on on a Windows 98 computer
The AI tests were performed on an old Elonex computer with a Pentium II processor running at 350 MHz. After booting the system with Windows 98, EXO’s Llama2.c-based artificial intelligence model was run. According to the results, the model was able to generate a fictional story.
The performance of the AI model on a Pentium II was also impressive. While the model with 260 thousand parameters could produce 35.9 words per second, even the model with 15 million parameters could produce more than 1 word per second. However, the larger Llama 3.2 model with 1 billion parameters was slower, producing only 0.0093 words per second.
EXO Labs, composed of researchers and engineers from Oxford University, emerged with the goal of countering the dominance of a few large companies in the field of artificial intelligence. The organization believes that the focus on AI can have detrimental effects on culture, reality and other fundamental elements of society.
EXO plans to build an open infrastructure for training and using AI models on a wide range of devices. It aims to enable ordinary people to harness the power of advanced technologies.
The Llama installation on Windows 98 is just the beginning for EXO Labs. The technical challenges faced by the team, such as transferring data to the old machine and compiling the current code for the old operating system, were also shared in detail.
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