Paul Couvert(@itsPaulAi):That's crazy when you think about it Qwen 3.8 27B is smarter than Opus 4.6 which was the absolute best model you could use 6-7 months ago. And now we have this Bonsai 2 retaining 98%+ of its intelligence... While weighing ONLY 5.9 GB 🤯 Intelligence density is absolutely crazy. Everyone has frontier intelligence at home now.

2026.09.18 20:55

That's crazy when you think about it Qwen 3.8 27B is smarter than Opus 4.6 which was the absolute best model you could use 6-7 months ago. And now we have this Bonsai 2 retaining 98%+ of its intelligence... While weighing ONLY 5.9 GB 🤯 Intelligence density is absolutely crazy. Everyone has frontier intelligence at home now.

PrismML@PrismML

2026.09.17 21:03

Today, we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai 2 27B. Based on Qwen3.8 27B, Bonsai 2 27B is 9x smaller than its full-precision counterpart while retaining 98.2% of its aggregate benchmark performance. Two months after the first Bonsai 27B release, the biggest change is quality. The footprint remains 5.9 GB, but the gap to full precision has narrowed materially, with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, multimodal reasoning, and long-horizon tool use. Ternary Bonsai 2 27B is available today under Apache 2.0.