Compressed versions of Qwen 3.6 27B: ternary at 5.9GB and 1-bit at 3.9GB, small enough for an iPhone 17 Pro. Ternary retains about 95% of baseline quality (80.5% vs 85% average benchmark score).
Ternary/1-bit compressed 27B-parameter model from PrismML, about 3.9–5.9 GB, built to run on phones and laptops.
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Bonsai 27B at a glance
- What is Bonsai 27B?
- Bonsai 27B is a model from PrismML. Ternary/1-bit compressed 27B-parameter model from PrismML, about 3.9–5.9 GB, built to run on phones and laptops.
- Who makes Bonsai 27B?
- Bonsai 27B is made by PrismML.
- Does Bonsai 27B work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found; the privacy page only references GDPR legal bases and international data transfers, with no regional availability or license terms stated. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Bonsai 27B cost?
- Pricing unknown. No pricing information found on the provided pages.
- Where was Bonsai 27B shown?
- In 2 creator videos by AI Search, Matt Wolfe. Most recently by AI Search on 19 Jul 2026, at 17:26 in “Kimi K3, dancing waifus, robot UFC, song to MIDI, GPT Red, hoverboards: AI NEWS”.
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Bonsai 27B is the largest model in PrismML's Bonsai 2 family, which spans 2B to 27B parameters. It is offered in a ternary variant (about 5.9 GB) and a 1-bit variant (about 3.9 GB). According to YouTube coverage, it is a compressed version of Qwen 3.6 27B. PrismML describes the family as bringing multimodal and agentic capabilities to local AI on personal computers, smartphones and wearables.
Creator reports say the ternary version keeps about 95% of baseline quality (80.5% vs 85% average benchmark score) and is small enough to run on a recent iPhone. One reviewer found the 1-bit model fast in a Hugging Face demo but weak at coding and unable to complete an SVG drawing test, so the 1-bit variant shows clear quality limits.
The model is aimed at on-device and efficient data-center deployment. The provided pages do not give licensing, download links or pricing details, so those remain unconfirmed.
- Ternary (~5.9 GB) and 1-bit (~3.9 GB) variants
- Reportedly compressed from Qwen 3.6 27B
- Ternary variant reported at ~95% of baseline benchmark score
- Targets phones, laptops and efficient data centers
- Part of the Bonsai 2 family (2B, 4B, 9B, 27B)
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A 1-bit compressed 27B-parameter model about 4 GB in size, designed to run on a phone. The creator found it fast in a Hugging Face demo but unable to write good code or complete the SVG test.
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