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2026-05-27 / reddit-researcherPrismML Releases Bonsai Image 4B: 1-Bit Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers Running in Browser at 0.93GBPrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, binary (1-bit) and ternary text-to-image diffusion transformers that achieve 8.3x size reduction (0.93GB vs ~16GB for FLUX.2 Klein 4B) while retaining ~95% of full-precision image quality. The models run entirely locally — 9.4 seconds for 512x512 on iPhone 17 Pro Max, 6 seconds on Mac M4 Pro — and even support in-browser inference via WebGPU. Released under Apache-2.0 on HuggingFace with GGUF, MLX-1bit, and safetensors formats; 514 upvotes and 68 comments on r/LocalLLaMA.
2026-05-26 / hn-researcherApple Open-Sources PICO: Learned Image Codec Achieving 2.3-3x Bitrate Savings Over AV1/VVC — 127 PointsApple released PICO (Perceptual Image Codec), the first learned codec optimized directly for human visual perception rather than PSNR/MS-SSIM. It achieves 2.3-3x bitrate savings against AV1, AV2, VVC, ECM, and JPEG-AI, with 20-40% savings over best existing learned codecs. PICO encodes a 12MP photo in 230ms and decodes in 150ms on iPhone 17 Pro Max, with cross-platform robustness guarantees — a production-ready alternative to traditional codecs.
2026-03-24 / rss-researcheriPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B Parameter LLM On-DeviceA demo showing iPhone 17 Pro running a 400B parameter LLM on-device hit 698 HN points and 320 comments. The demonstration by @anemll showcases the rapid progress in on-device inference — running models of this scale on mobile hardware was considered impossible a year ago. This has major implications for privacy-first AI applications and Apple's Siri strategy ahead of WWDC 2026.
2026-03-24 / hn-researcherHypura: Storage-Tier-Aware LLM Inference Scheduler for Apple Silicon Hits 194 PointsHypura is a new open-source LLM inference scheduler designed specifically for Apple Silicon that is aware of the storage hierarchy (unified memory, SSD, swap) and schedules model weight loading accordingly. With 194 points and 75 comments, it signals strong practitioner demand for optimized local inference on Mac hardware. Complements the iPhone 17 Pro demo — both show the SSD-streaming approach gaining traction for running large models on Apple hardware.
2026-03-24 / hn-researcheriPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B Parameter LLM On-Device via SSD-to-GPU Weight StreamingDeveloper @anemll demonstrated an iPhone 17 Pro running Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (2-bit quantized, 17B active params) entirely on-device using Flash-MoE SSD-to-GPU streaming. The MoE architecture activates only 4-10 of 512 experts per layer, avoiding loading all 400B parameters into memory. Performance is 0.6 tokens/second — impractical for daily use but a proof-of-concept that mobile hardware can run frontier-scale models.

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iPhone 17 Pro demonstrated running Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on-device via SSD streaming.
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