Hackaday

Making The Smallest And Dumbest LLM With Extreme Quantization

The reason why large language models are called ‘large’ is not because of how smart they are, but as a factor of their sheer size in bytes. At billions of parameters at four bytes each, they pose a ...
Forbes

How Mixed-Precision Quantization Could Break AI’s Power Addiction

It turns out the rapid growth of AI has a massive downside: namely, spiraling power consumption, strained infrastructure and runaway environmental damage. It’s clear the status quo won’t cut it ...
GIGAZINE

Huawei announces 'SINQ,' an open-source quantization method that reduces memory usage of AI models by 60-70% and enables them to run on inexpensive, low-performance hardware

Huawei, a major Chinese technology company, has announced Sinkhorn-Normalized Quantization (SINQ), a quantization technique that enables large-scale language models (LLMs) to run on consumer-grade ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM Inference On CPUs (Intel)

“Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance and tremendous potential across a wide range of tasks. However, deploying these models has been challenging due to the ...
Hackaday

An LLM For The Raspberry Pi

Microsoft’s latest Phi4 LLM has 14 billion parameters that require about 11 GB of storage. Can you run it on a Raspberry Pi? Get serious. However, the Phi4-mini ...
Morningstar

Fujitsu develops generative AI reconstruction technology for optimized and energy-efficient AI models based on Takane LLM

TOKYO, Sept. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu announced the development of a new reconstruction technology for generative AI. The new technology, positioned as a core component of the Fujitsu Kozuchi ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Neural Network Model Quantization On Mobile

The general definition of quantization states that it is the process of mapping continuous infinite values to a smaller set of discrete finite values. In this blog, we will talk about quantization in ...