Syzygy claims a 35B model compressed to 7GB

Syzygy Research compressed a 35-billion-parameter model to 1.7 bits per weight while holding onto 95% of full-precision performance, per its own announcement on X.

The result, called Mach-1 Additive, is a tenth the size of the original at 7GB total. Syzygy says it runs at up to 120 tokens per second on a consumer laptop, without a data center GPU.

Those benchmark numbers come from 12 agentic and reasoning tests run against Qwen 3.6 35B, the full-precision model Syzygy started from. Converting an existing model into this format takes under 15 GPU hours of retraining, per Syzygy, far cheaper than training one from scratch. That conversion cost matters for any lab sitting on a model it doesn't want to retrain from zero.

r/LocalLLaMA picked it up at 480 upvotes under the title "why nobody is talking about this."

None of this is independently verified yet. As of August 5, no outside lab has replicated the 95% figure, checked the GPU-hours claim, or benchmarked the 120 tok/s number.