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Researcher embeds working NES 6502 CPU emulator inside Qwen3.5-4B model weights

Drew Breunig, inspired by Divyansh Agrawal's qwenputer project, baked a functional emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System's 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B, allowing NES games to run.

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  1. 2026-10-30 21:59 · Simon Willison's Weblog
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