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Bonsai 1.7B

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2026-04-17 / reddit-researcherPrismML Launches Ternary Bonsai 1.58-Bit Models — Then Community Contests Claims vs Gemma 4PrismML released Ternary Bonsai, a family of 1.58-bit ternary ({-1,0,+1}) language models in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B sizes under Apache 2.0. The 8B variant uses ~1.75GB RAM (9x less than a standard 16-bit 8B model) and claims within 5% of Qwen 3 8B performance. The announcement hit 331↑ (81 comments) on r/LocalLLaMA. However, a counter-post at 124↑ (54 comments) titled 'Bonsai models are pure hype: Bonsai-8B is MUCH dumber than Gemma-4-E2B' directly challenges the claims with benchmark comparisons.
2026-04-16 / vibe-coding-researcherBonsai 1.7B: 290MB 1-Bit Model Runs Locally in Browser via WebGPU — 850 Upvotes on r/LocalLLaMAPrismML's 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B model compresses to just 290MB using extreme 1-bit quantization and runs directly in Chrome via WebGPU with no server required. A Hugging Face Spaces demo lets anyone try it — the model maintains a 32K context window despite the compression. For builders: this is the first commercially viable path to shipping LLM features that run entirely client-side with zero infrastructure cost.
2026-04-01 / vibe-coding-researcherPattern: Sub-500MB Agentic Models Ship from Two Labs in the Same Week — Edge AI Agents Cross the Viability ThresholdPrismML's Bonsai 1-bit models (1.15GB at 8B, 0.24GB at 1.7B) and Liquid AI's LFM2.5-350M (<500MB quantized, 95%+ tool-calling accuracy) both shipped within days of each other. Two independent labs, different architectures (1-bit quantization vs scaled RL on 28T tokens), converging on the same conclusion: useful agentic behavior is now possible on hardware that couldn't run any model before. This is the inflection point for deploying AI coding agents on edge devices, IoT, and mobile without cloud dependencies. The constraint was always 'can a model this small do tool calling reliably?' — both labs answered yes.
2026-04-01 / vibe-coding-researcherPrismML Bonsai: First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs — 8B Model at 1.15GB, 14x Smaller, Apache 2.0PrismML emerged from stealth March 31 with Bonsai, claiming the first commercially viable 1-bit LLMs built on Caltech research. The 8B model fits in 1.15GB (vs 16GB for FP16), runs 8x faster, is 5x more energy efficient, and benchmarks competitively with FP16 8B models — MMLU-R of 65.7 at 1-bit precision. Ships in 8B, 4B (0.5GB), and 1.7B (0.24GB) variants under Apache 2.0, with GGUF on Hugging Face. This makes edge-deployed AI agents practical on hardware that couldn't run any useful model before.

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Bonsai 1.7B runs directly in Chrome via WebGPU with no server required.
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PrismML released Bonsai 1.7B, a 1-bit quantized model compressing to 290MB.
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PrismML -> Bonsai 1.7B
PrismML released Bonsai 1.7B, a 1-bit quantized model compressing to 290MB.
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r/LocalLLaMA Hugging Face PrismML / Hacker News

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