Ternary Bonsai 8B

Released
2026-04-16
Last refreshed
2026-10-20
Status
Researched 1d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Ternary 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
2026-04-16
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

Ternary Bonsai 8B is PrismML's first-generation 1.58-bit ternary open-weight language model based on Qwen3-8B, released April 16, 2026 with the Ternary Bonsai family. It targets on-device use on phones, laptops and edge hardware, with a 64K-token context (packed Q2_0 2.18 GB). Apache 2.0.

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API versions

ternary-bonsai-8bprism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-8B-gguf