Bonsai 8B

Released
2026-03-31
Last refreshed
2026-10-20
Status
Researched 1d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Bonsai 8B is available now for general LLM work with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Bonsai
Released
2026-03-31
Context
64K
Parameters
8.19B
Specialization
on-device
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

PrismML (Prism ML, Inc.) builds ultra-dense 1-bit and ternary Bonsai models for on-device and efficient datacenter infer

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About

Bonsai 8B is PrismML's first-generation 1-bit open-weight language model based on Qwen3-8B, released March 31, 2026 when PrismML emerged from stealth. It targets on-device use on phones, laptops and edge hardware, with a 64K-token context (deployed 1.15 GB). Apache 2.0.

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API versions

bonsai-8bprism-ml/Bonsai-8B-gguf1-bit Bonsai 8B