Creative Hardware
Someone Fit a Working Image Generator Onto a $1 Chip
cpldcpu's pico-faces project runs a genuine latent diffusion transformer entirely on a $1 RP2350 microcontroller, generating 128×128 face images in 4 to 20 seconds from under 4MB of flash — roughly 4,000 times smaller than a model like Flux, and a real answer to whether generative AI can run without a GPU at all.