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11th April 2023 - Link Blog

Sheepy-T - an LLM running on an iPhone. Kevin Kwok has a video on Twitter demonstrating Sheepy-T—his iPhone app which runs a full instruction-tuned large language model, based on EleutherAI’s GPT-J, entirely on an iPhone 14. I applied for the TestFlight beta and I have this running on my phone now: it works!

Posted 11th April 2023 at 5:54 pm

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