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As the contest entry page explains:

> ChatIOCCC is the world’s smallest LLM (large language model) inference engine - a “generative AI chatbot” in plain-speak. ChatIOCCC runs a modern open-source model (Meta’s LLaMA 2 with 7 billion parameters) and has a good knowledge of the world, can understand and speak multiple languages, write code, and many other things. Aside from the model weights, it has no external dependencies and will run on any 64-bit platform with enough RAM.

(Model weights need to be downloaded using an enclosed shell script.)

https://www.ioccc.org/2024/cable1/index.html

Good reminder of the fact that an LLM is not a program.
Only every implementation is [through] a program?

Interestingly the UK Supreme Court ruled on this in the Emotional Perception AI case - though I'd need to check if that was obiter (not part of the legal ruling itself).