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Bonsai 2 compresses a large model into a small footprint

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Claim

The newsletter reports that Bonsai 2 contains 27 billion parameters in a 5.9-gigabyte footprint.

Reported metric: 27B; 5.9GB

Reporting date: 2026-09-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Bonsai 2 packs 27B into 5.9GB (prismml.com)

Indexed from the September 20 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Bonsai 2

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Welcome to September 20, 2026

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Welcome to September 20, 2026

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Bonsai 2 compresses a large model into a small footprint
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-20-bonsai-compression
Claim: The newsletter reports that Bonsai 2 contains 27 billion parameters in a 5.9-gigabyte footprint.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-20-2026
- Bonsai 2 packs 27B into 5.9GB — https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
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