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Qwenputer project compiles a 32-bit RISC-V CPU into Qwen3.5-4B's weights

According to a post on X by @VectorCrossProd, an ambassador project credited to divagr1925 uses the Gated DeltaNet state of Qwen3.5-4B as memory. It inserts hand-compiled transformer layers that implement a 32-bit RISC-V CPU, so the model runs instructions during its own forward pass instead of predicting arithmetic. Per an explainer quoted by LilithDatura, the original Qwen weights are left unchanged. Builders called it a striking open-source experiment, but the source snippet is cut off.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-10-29T00:35:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-29T05:23:56+00:00
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According to a post on X by @VectorCrossProd, an ambassador project credited to divagr1925 uses the Gated DeltaNet state of Qwen3.5-4B as memory. It inserts hand-compiled transformer layers that implement a 32-bit RISC-V CPU, so the model runs instructions during its own forward pass instead of predicting arithmetic. Per an explainer quoted by LilithDatura, the original Qwen weights are left unchanged. Builders called it a striking open-source experiment, but the source snippet is cut off.

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An ambassador project credited to divagr1925 uses Qwen's Gated DeltaNet state as memory and inserts hand-compiled transformer layers that implement a RISC-V CPU, so the model executes instructions inside its own forward pass instead of predicting arithmetic. The original Qwen weights are left unchanged, per an...

For researchers and builders studying how language models can be made to carry out computation, this is an early experiment to watch rather than a settled result. The next signals to track are whether the project publishes its code and whether independent builders can reproduce how it works.

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