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PrismML compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 to 5.9 GB for smartphones
PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a model that compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B down to 5.9 GB. This compression makes the model small enough to run on smartphones while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's original benchmark scores.
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PrismML compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 to 5.9 GB for smartphones: PrismML has released Bonsai 2 27B, a model that compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B down to 5.9 GB. This compression makes the model small enough to run on smartphones while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's original benchmark scores.