New 1-bit and 2-bit quantization techniques are reducing large language models to consumer and professional GPU footprints. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, Boole-1.7B and algebraic integer compression show that on-premise efficiency is advancing quickly.
NVIDIA positions Nemotron 3.5 Bolt as a vision-language model for everyday agentic tasks running locally: 74B total parameters, 9B active, native 2-bit quantization, and a 24GB footprint. It supports text, images, video, and up to 256K tokens of cont...
NVIDIA's Nemotron Bolt 3.5 74B A9B arrives Oct 15 as a 74B-parameter, 9B-active MoE compressed to 24GB using 2-bit quantization with quantization-aware training. It targets speed and intelligence balance; a 4GB E4B model follows Oct 23.
Precision Numerics debuts with Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B model at 247 MB packed weights, 13.9 times smaller than BF16. It retains 85.9% of the BF16 average score across ten tasks, outperforms 1-bit Bonsai-1.7B, and nearly matches the 1.58-bit ve...
A new compression format for LLMs uses algebraic integers instead of the usual floating-point or fixed-point formats. The research shows competitive accuracy with the MX format at equal bit-per-parameter budgets. For self-hosted inference, the potent...
