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PrismML Releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9 GB Apache 2.0 Model Retaining 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B Performance

PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Qwen3.8 27B that utilizes ternary weights to reduce the model size to 5.93 GB. This allows for significantly smaller storage requirements while reportedly retaining 98.2% of the original model's benchmark performance across 20 tests.

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