Bonsai 1 Bit Announcement: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit Bonsai 1 Bit is a 1 bit language model that comes in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B parameter sizes. The 8B model is 1/16 the size of comparable 16 bit 8B open models with similar performance. At 1.15gb, this model can fit on many kinds of devices with 4-5x better energy efficiency

Qwen-Image-2.1 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1 Website: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1 Developer: Alibaba Cloud, Qwen team Released: September 2026 Variants: Qwen-Image-2.1 (40 default denoising steps) / Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (8 denoising steps) Parameters: 7B visual generation component, plus Qwen3-VL 8B text encoder Resolution: native 2K, 2048x2048 default; recommended sizes include 2752x1536 and 1536x2752 Architecture: single-stream DiT, 32 layers, block-causal attention with prefix KV cache reuse; Qwen3-VL 8B text encoder; 64-channel RGBA VAE with 16x spatial compression; flow matching with Euler scheduler License: Qwen Research License Agreement Modalities: Text-to-Image + Image editing (up to 10 reference images), native RGBA transparency Runs on: Desktop GPU, 24GB+ VRAM with model CPU offload Formats: BF16 safetensors, Diffusers pipeline On disk: Qwen-Image-2.1: 33.13GB (14.23GB transformer, 17.53GB text encoder, 1.35GB VAE) / Turbo: 32.49GB (14.23GB transformer, 17.53GB text encoder, 0.68GB VAE)