Anthropic ran a 26B model across 15 Android TV boxes, and got 0.39 tokens a second

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 15 Oct, 06:57 UTC

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran a 26-billion-parameter model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, bought for about $55 each with 4GB of RAM apiece, and got 0.39 tokens a second out of the lot. William Zhou and Daniel Freeman write that the model was Gemma4-26B-A4B, that the result shows "signs…