Gemma 4 26B runs locally on a 13-year-old Xeon CPU with zero GPUs
davidad · x · 2026-08-04
A conversation at MIT CSAIL recalls an old bet that a Turing-test-passing chatbot would run in real time on a top-of-the-line 2008 MacBook Pro by 2045.
The quoted post reacts to a demo of Gemma 4 26B running locally with zero GPUs and even on a 13-year-old Xeon CPU, framing it as a sign of how far local inference on old hardware has come.
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