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Microsoft researchers build 1-bit AI LLM with 2B parameters — model small enough to run on some CPUs

Microsoft researchers just created BitNet b1.58 2B4T, an open-source 1-bit large language model with two billion parameters and trained on four trillion tokens. But what makes this AI model unique is ...
Forbes

Small Bits, Big Ideas: The Amazing Rise Of 1-Bit LLMs For Building Faster And Slimmer Generative AI Apps

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 ...
Electronic Design

Making 1.5 Bits Work for Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are just one type of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), but they along with chatbots have changed the way people use computers. Like most artificial neural ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft's New Compact 1-Bit LLM Needs Just 400MB of Memory

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Ars Technica

Microsoft’s “1‑bit” AI model runs on a CPU only, while matching larger systems

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 ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware

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 ...