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 ...
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 ...
Microsoft’s new large language model (LLM) puts significantly less strain on hardware than other LLMs—and it’s free to experiment with. The 1-bit LLM (1.58-bit, to be more precise) uses -1, 0, and 1 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
You only need to spend thirty seconds with 1-bit Ninja to see its Super Mario Bros. heritage. Another thirty exposes its unique camera mechanic that reveals a hidden 3D landscape when rotated, much ...