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Asbjørn has been making computers have conversations since way before GPT-2.
He's passionate about software freedom and decentralization, and started the NobodyWho project for on-device language model inference to support these efforts.
He's also:
- a founding member of pyjam.as
- happy to yap about federated protocols for social
- part of the Bornhack Game Team
- probably drunk
- a proud winner of Hacker Jeopardy
- shameful question-writer for Hacker Millionaire
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Events for Asbjørn Olling
Everyone knows about large language models: piles of matrices that flop around on power-hungry GPU datacenters and cost a small fortune to depend on.
But what's going on in the small end? What sorts of language tasks can you solve using only hardware that you already own?
This talk is about the state of the art for small language models in 2026. I'll compare what can be done with models small enough to run on verious types of hardware: a smartwatch, a raspberry pi, a smartphone… Read more
Schedule:
- Friday, Jul 17th, 2026, 16:00 (CEST) - Friday, Jul 17th, 2026, 17:00 (CEST)