5 Tiny AIs Played Mario. Only One Survived.

I gave Super Mario Bros to five tiny language models — the kind that run on a laptop, or even your phone — and watched them play. One of them beat the level. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 - 0:41 The Experiment 0:41 - 1:50 Models and Setup 1:50 - 2:43 Tinyllama Run 2:43 - 3:28 Qwen Run 3:28 - 4:41 Phi Run 4:41 - 5:38 Orca-Mini Run 5.38 - 7:02 Smollm2 Run 7:02 -8:10 The Winning Run 8:10 - 10:34 What did we learn? 🧠 SPECIMENS: smollm2 — 135M parameters qwen — 500M tinyllama — 1.1B phi — 2.7B orca-mini — 3B For reference, GPT-5 is estimated at around 9.7 trillion parameters. Having fun with local AI models. That's the whole pitch. #ai #mario #localai #smallai #aigaming