MENACE
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- University of Edinburgh
- Organisation type
- Academia
- Country
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Published
- 1 November 1963
- Authors
- Donald Michie
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Games
- Task
- Tic Tac Toe
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Training data
- tokens
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Unknown
- Citations
- 46
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Experiments on the Mechanization of Game-Learning Part I. Characterization of the Model and its parameters
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
Where it came from
MENACE was published by University of Edinburgh, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in November 1963. It comes out of academia.
It works in Games, and is recorded as doing tic Tac Toe.
Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.
Answers
MENACE — common questions
Is MENACE open source?
The licensing for MENACE was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.
How many parameters does MENACE have?
No parameter count has been published for MENACE, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.
Who created MENACE?
MENACE was published by University of Edinburgh, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as academia.
When was MENACE released?
MENACE was published in November 1963. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
What is MENACE used for?
MENACE works in Games, and is recorded as handling tic Tac Toe. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
What GPU do I need to run MENACE?
None. MENACE is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
The other direction
Looking at it from the other side?
This page starts from the model. If you already own a card and want to know everything it will run, start from the hardware instead.