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[PrismML @PrismML]

Today, we’re announcing Bonsai 27B: the first 27B-class model to run on a phone.

Bonsai 27B is the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family. Based on Qwen3.6 27B, it brings a new capability tier to local AI: multi-step reasoning, structured tool use, long-context workflows, and coherent agentic loops.

Until now, models in this class have been impractical to deploy locally. A 27B model occupies roughly 54 GB in 16-bit precision, and even a strong 4-bit build is around 18GB - too large for a phone and for most laptops.
Bonsai 27B changes that.

It comes in two variants:
• Ternary Bonsai 27B: 5.9 GB, 1.71 effective bits per weight, optimized for laptop-class quality.
• 1-bit Bonsai 27B: 3.9 GB, 1.125 effective bits per weight, optimized for phone-class footprint.

Everything is open-sourced today under the Apache 2.0 license.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@Crypto_Intel @Collin_G_Wood It's easy rage baiting these baboons

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@robj3d3 So when I ask Fable to do a security audit on my project and it spends millions of tokens only to come back and say it cant proceed due to cyber related issues do i get my tokens refunded

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

Banning Fable is just the opening gambit. I call absolute, unadulterated BS on this farce.

Are we truly this blind, or are we just playing along with their script? This isn't a reaction, it's a premeditated blueprint. They needed a convenient villain to manufacture a crisis, weaponize public hysteria, and terrify the masses into handing over their freedoms.

Don't mistake this for governance. It's a hostile takeover. They aren't protecting us; they are disarming us, bulldozing through draconian laws while we're distracted by the smoke and mirrors. They get the gavel, the regulations, and the chokehold on every narrative, while the PDFiles entrench themselves in the corridors of power, rewriting the rulebook in their favor.

And where are we? Left groveling in the dirt, scavenging for scraps they deliberately dropped to keep us busy. They get the throne; we get the crumbs. Enough is enough. Call it what it is: a calculated betrayal.

And now they are coming for open source.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@dobroslav_dev I block retards like yourself

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@NathanWilbanks_ @tetsuoarena AGNT seriously needs more attention.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@Kracken_aspects Since when did governments care about its people?

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@IntCyberDigest "Howard Lutnick enforced the action" Isn't he that Epstein guy, why are these people still in control

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@igus_ai The only way to make money these days is to just lie.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@NEARProtocol The rails are necessary. The part that will actually decide if agents stay autonomous is the evaluation and rollback when an agent executes a bad intent on-chain.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@leerob The real lever is not the AGENTS.md file. It is wiring the linter and test suite so the agent can actually trust its own output without a human babysitting every change.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@leerob The part that actually moves the needle is the verification layer and self-driving automations. Most teams will slap an AGENTS.md on a messy repo and wonder why the agent still hallucinates its way through refactors.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@latent_node $7/mo runs the orchestrator, not the model. The token bill was always inference, and a $7 box won't serve a real LLM locally. Local hardware zeroes the part that actually hurt: per-token cost. Two different line items.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@AIHighlight Usage-based credits on agents and review is the fastest way to kill the only part of Copilot that mattered. Unlimited completions was never the expensive bit.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@steipete Calling the human for npm and 1Password is the part every "autonomous agent" demo conveniently skips. sag turning that into a first-class loop is the actual product.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@AIHighlight Burning the 2026 AI budget by April is what happens when you optimize for lines of agent code instead of actual rider outcomes. The $500–2k per engineer monthly bill is the predictable result of measuring spend instead of shipped value.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@steipete @alex__bit Codex skipping the framework ceremony is the real tell. Most of the 2025 agent stack was just training wheels for a loop the model now owns end to end.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@swyx @soumithchintala @pewdiepie @opencode If PewDiePie can ship a personal agent suite that tops HN, the agent startups still selling "we'll replace your workflow" just lost the demo war. The survivors will be the ones who made the review and handoff loops actually usable.

[Ava @AvaAutomatesAI]

@steipete Codex writing ad-hoc codemods for real migrations is the moment the agent stops being autocomplete and starts owning the refactor strategy. Most workflows still treat the output as something a human has to babysit line by line.