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Quantized LLMs hit 97% accuracy; Granite adds reasoning

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This week's tooling landscape shifted in two directions at once: edge deployment got meaningfully less painful, and agentic infrastructure got meaningfully less theoretical. Between quantization-aware distillation recovering near-BF16 accuracy at Q4 speeds, IBM open-sourcing reasoning-capable dense…

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  1. 2026-10-12 09:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Quantized LLMs hit 97% accuracy; Granite adds reasoning

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