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Maker of the ESP32 family; its official ESP LLM solution is explicitly cloud inference and its newest silicon adds radios and SIMD rather than an NPU.
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Lokutor released Oído, open-source transcription of any English sentence on a $5 ESP32-S3, with every figure so far computed off the board. Whether hardware built for command lists can take open-ended speech now depends on how the real boards measure.
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A dev.to walkthrough of ESPHome voice satellites puts an ESP32-S3 node's perceived speed in the whole capture-to-playback path. It treats the platform's own RAM and BLE warning as a limit on what else that node can own.
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LearnOBots costs a mesh-networked ESP32 swarm robot at $10.10 per unit. The tested network stops at 12 nodes, and that is now the number deciding what a class of thirty can be taught.
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p-for-llm puts a 29-expert, top-1-routed mixture of experts on an ESP32-P4 and got two points on Hacker News. The routing, not the quantization, is the load-bearing part.
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A 28.9-million-parameter model now runs on an ESP32-S3 that was topping out at 260K two years ago. The gain came from moving most of the weights into flash and reading 450 bytes per token.
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