Ali Asif

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Bonsai: what I’ve logged

Bonsai comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from July 2026 to September 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from PrismML, filed under frontier, image, video, world and open weights.

Items that mention Bonsai

  1. PrismML 14 Sep 2026

    Ternary Bonsai 2 27B

    A ternary model about nine times smaller than full precision that PrismML says keeps 98.2% of its benchmark performance.

    Primary source

  2. PrismML 13 Jul 2026

    Ternary Bonsai 27B

    A ternary-weight 27B multimodal model that fits in about 5.9 GB, which puts a capable assistant on an ordinary laptop.

    Primary source

Posts that cover Bonsai

September 20261 entry

  1. Week of 14 Sep 2026Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pactFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business

July 20261 entry

  1. Week of 13 Jul 2026Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge modelsFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world