PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones

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<p>PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged. Two variants ship under Apache 2.0. Ternary Bonsai 27B uses {−1, 0, +1} weights at a true 1.71 bits per weight. Its ideal size is 5.9GB. 1-bit Bonsai 27B uses binary {−1, +1} weights at [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/07/14/prismml-releases-bonsai-27b-1-bit-and-ternary-builds-of-qwen3-6-27b-that-run-on-laptops-and-phones/">PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>