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AI Lab · by Pieter Botha · 2026-10-28

Qwenputer: someone built a working, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

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This is the most delightfully cursed project of the week. They make the model emulate a RISC-V CPU deterministically through its weights and attention. Pointless? Maybe. But it's a really interesting probe of what transformers can actually execute vs. approximate.

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Arif Hasan · 14 likes

serious note, deterministic execution through a LLM is a nice counterexample to "they just predict text"

João Pereira · 0 likes

next step: run doom on it

Jonas Schneider · 0 likes

the doom porting community is already typing