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license: mit
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags: [thox, deprecated, esp32]
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# ThoxKey-TLM — DEPRECATED

**Use [`Thox-ai/ThoxKey-9M-role`](https://huggingface.co/Thox-ai/ThoxKey-9M-role)
instead.** That is the model actually baked into the ESP32-S3 firmware.

This repo was created from a roster proposal that listed **`slvDev/esp32-ai`** as
its base. That base is invalid on two counts:

1. **It is not a Hugging Face model.** It is a GitHub repository
   ([github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai](https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai), MIT), so it
   can never resolve as an HF `base_model` — the field 404s by construction.
2. **No THOX model was ever trained from it.** The ThoxKey tier shipped
   `ThoxKey-9M-role`, a fine-tune of our own ternary pretrain
   `Thox-ai/ThoxMicro-1bit-9M`.

The bogus `base_model` has been removed rather than re-pointed, and no weights
were ever published here. Nothing downstream should reference this repo.

**Canonical ThoxKey model:** `Thox-ai/ThoxKey-9M-role`
(base: `Thox-ai/ThoxMicro-1bit-9M`, artifact: `model.tern1`).