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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint.

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Simon Willison commented on Hacker News about Bonsai 2 27B, a near-lossless compression method with a 9x smaller footprint. GGUF versions are available on Hugging Face and require Prism's llama.cpp fork to run.

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“My comment on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint — Hacker News. If you want to try out out the GGUFs from https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf#th...”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 17 Sept 2026, 22:13.

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