Soon local LLMs will be 6x smarter by using bytes instead of tokens

Meta demonstrated, in their Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models paper, by converting tokens from teacher models into byte models. I look forward to seeing this in practice.

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2026-10-15 19:34 · r/LocalLLM
Soon local LLMs will be 6x smarter by using bytes instead of tokens

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