How did I miss this?! Bonsai isn’t just an LLM family.
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How did I miss this?! Bonsai isn’t just an LLM family. Back in May, PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, a crazy low-bit version of FLUX.2 Klein 4B designed to run locally on 🍎 iPhones. Look at this 🎨 FLUX.2 Klein 4B transformer 💾 FP16: 7.75GB 🌳 Ternary Bonsai: 1.21GB And the entire Apple deployment payload, including its compressed text encoder + VAE, is only: 🔥 3.88GB 📱 iPhone 17 Pro Max 🧠 A19 Pro / 12GB unified memory 🖼️ 512×512 ⚡ 9.4 sec/image 📲 MLX Swift ☁️ No cloud 💾 Bomsai Studio (App Store) M4 Pro: ~5.8 sec/image. No cloud. The ~4B diffusion transformer is paired with a 4-bit Qwen
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