The 5.9GB LLM That Fits on a Phone — and the $280 Billion Question
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The 5.9GB LLM That Fits on a Phone — and the $280 Billion Question A tiny lab out of Caltech just shipped something that made me stop scrolling. PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B, which takes Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B — a solid, widely-used open model — and squeezes it down to 5.9GB. That's roughly a 9x to…
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The 5.9GB LLM That Fits on a Phone — and the $280 Billion Question