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Developer compiles an NPU into Qwen3.5-4B weights to run a second, tiny model

According to a post on X by @QwenAIFans, a developer compiled an NPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B and used it to run Karpathy's stories260K, a small model that writes the stories shown in the demo video. The post says this follows an earlier experiment by the same developer that put a RISC-V core inside model weights. The account describes the work as an experimental demo, not a usable speed.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-01T00:45:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-01T05:27:45+00:00
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According to a post on X by @QwenAIFans, a developer compiled an NPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B and used it to run Karpathy's stories260K, a small model that writes the stories shown in the demo video. The post says this follows an earlier experiment by the same developer that put a RISC-V core inside model weights. The account describes the work as an experimental demo, not a usable speed.

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After an earlier experiment that put a RISC-V core inside model weights, the same developer compiled an NPU into Qwen3.5-4B and used it to run Karpathy's stories260K, which writes stories in the demo video. The Qwen fan account notes it's an experimental demo, not usable speed. Original post on X Section:...

For now this looks like an early proof of concept rather than a practical tool, since the post says the speed is not usable. Developers working on open-weight models and on hardware-level inference may find the approach worth tracking. Next, watch whether the developer shares more technical detail or performance figures.

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