Microsoft Opens The Era of 1-Bit LLMs

16 Times Smaller, But Shocking Performance

Let’s be real, numbers don’t lie.

While markets rally with AI, its effect is clearly not being translated into value, as fewer than 4% of companies are using AI to produce goods and services.

To make matters worse, while some big companies are indeed embracing AI, the unfathomable costs prevent smaller companies from following suit, ironically turning a technology meant to democratize complex tasks and foster competitiveness into a massive inequality machine.

However, things might soon change, as Microsoft has quietly released a 1.58-bit Large Language Model (LLM) that matches the performance of its 16-bit counterpart while being an order of magnitude cheaper and faster.

Microsoft calls it the era of 1-bit LLMs, and you are going to love every second of it.

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