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183 Developer creates 'conversational AI' that can run on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU with 64kb of RAM — features a tiny chatbot and a 20-question guessing game

Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware · 02/02/2026 08:22 EDT

Developer creates 'conversational AI' that can run on 1976 Zilog Z80 CPU with 64kb of RAM — features a tiny chatbot and a 20-question guessing game

The venerable Z80 microprocessor has its own micro language model, and its quite terse in its responses

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