QwenPU runs Karpathy's stories260k on an NPU compiled inside Qwen 3.5-4B weights
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Developer divagr18, who previously embedded a RISC-V CPU inside Qwen, built an NPU inside Qwen 3.5-4B's weights that runs Karpathy's stories260k model. Code is on GitHub at divagr18/QwenPU, with weights hosted on Hugging Face.
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