What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t about building bigger, more complex models, but instead about making them smaller, faster, and more accessible? The buzz around so-called “1-bit ...

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The idea of simplifying model weights isn’t a completely new one in AI research. For years, researchers have been experimenting with quantization techniques that squeeze their neural network weights ...

Microsoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware Your email has been sent Microsoft’s model BitNet b1.58 2B4T is available on Hugging Face but doesn’t run on GPU ...

Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I explore the exciting and rapidly ...

bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (e.g., BitNet b1.58). It offers a suite of optimized kernels, that support fast and lossless inference of 1.58-bit models on CPU (with NPU ...

The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) has brought impressive capabilities, but it has also highlighted significant challenges related to resource consumption and scalability. LLMs often ...

Recent research on the 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs), such as BitNet b1.58, presents a promising direction for reducing the inference cost of LLMs while maintaining their performance. In this ...