For roughly $825, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes that runs an AI model at 0.39 tokens per second, painfully slow for a chatbot but fine for software with nowhere to be and nobody waiting on it. That experiment anchors new research from Anthropic researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman , published Monday, suggesting small open-weight models may be only months away from copying themselves across cheap, internet-connected hardware without relying on a datacenter. The researchers haven’t built an AI worm that can spread across the public...

Source: The New Stack