Microsoft researchers create super‑efficient AI that uses up to 96% less energy

Microsoft has a very special AI model, a bitnet that works on a classic processor, with performance similar to certain versions of Llama and Gemini.

Microsoft researchers create super‑efficient AI that uses up to 96% less energy

When it comes to actually storing the numerical weights that power a large language model's underlying neural network, most modern AI models rely on the precision of 16- or 32-bit floating point numbers. But that level of precision can come at the cost of large memory footprints (in the hundreds…

Microsoft researchers claim to have developed the largest 1-bit AI model, also known as the "bitnet", to date. Baptised as BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it is available under MIT license and can operate on CPUs, including Apple's M2. Bitnets are essentially compressed models designed to operate on light hardware. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the ability of computer systems to perform tasks typically associated with the computer's computer hardwar…

The company's new 1-bit LLM is so light and efficient that it can run on a CPU instead of relying on many GPUs.

News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. In a new breakthrough for the development of accessible artificial intelligence, Microsoft has presented BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a hyperefficient AI model that can be run only on CPUs, without the need for powerful graphics cards. This model, with 2 billion parameters, is designed under the focus of bitnets, an architecture that uses only three possible values (-1, 0 …

Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

Microsoft has introduced BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the largest-scale 1-bit AI model to date with 2 billion parameters and the ability to run efficiently on CPUs. It's openly available under an MIT license. TechCrunch reports: The Microsoft researchers say that BitNet b1.58 2B4T is the first bitnet with 2 ...