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Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

by PrismML prismml.com published 2026-04-164 min read

Today, we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai, a new family of 1.58-bit language models designed to balance strict memory constraints with high accuracy requirements.

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