alt Hacker NewsA PlayStation 2 dev kit (with 128 MiB of RAM instead of the standard 32 MiB).
Between the VUs, the R5900's SIMD (MMI), the GS and the I/O buses (FireWire, Ethernet, IDE, Memory Cards...) to stream model weights, the smallest Bonsai models (or aggressively quantized Qwen3.5-0.8B) and some really cursed programming might just eke out something the PlayStation 2 has no business running.
This would be fascinating. I've sometimes wondered how computing would have been different if we'd known how to build modern LLMs in the 2000s, despite the much poorer hardware (leaving aside how you could possibly train such a thing back then).