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Boole-1.7B: A 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B model that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B

We're launching Precision Numerics by releasing Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit version of Qwen3-1.7B. 247 MB packed weights: 13.9× smaller than BF16. 85.9% of the BF16 model’s average score across our 10-task evaluation - outperforms 1-bit Bonsai-1.7B and nearly matches 1.58-bit Bonsai-1.7B. Try it locally in…

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  1. 2026-10-12 15:35 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Boole-1.7B: A 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B model that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B

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