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PrismML releases Bonsai 27B, a 1-bit model for laptops and phones

PrismML has released Bonsai 27B, a highly compressed version of Qwen3.6-27B designed for efficient operation on consumer hardware. The model features ternary and 1-bit weight representations, reducing its size to 5.9GB and 3.9GB respectively, while retaining a significant portion of the original model's performance. These low-bit builds are multimodal and support a large context window, making them suitable for devices with limited memory such as laptops and phones. AI

IMPACT Enables running large language models on consumer devices with limited memory, potentially broadening access and use cases.

RANK_REASON Release of a novel, highly compressed model variant with performance metrics. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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PrismML releases Bonsai 27B, a 1-bit model for laptops and phones

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  1. MarkTechPost TIER_1 English(EN) · Asif Razzaq ·

    PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones

    <p>PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged. Two variants ship under Apache 2.0. Ternary Bonsai 27B uses {−1, 0, +1} weights at a true 1.71 bits per weight. Its ideal size is 5.9GB. 1-bit Bo…