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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B benchmark performance in a 5.9GB footprint, with multimodal and agentic capabilities.

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