#bitnet

How did EXO Labs get a lightweight Llama 2 running on a 1997 Pentium II with just 128 MB of RAM? By leaning on BitNet’s ternary-weight approach (-1, 0, 1), the team showed the model could respond, slowly, underscoring that software optimization, not new silicon, can unlock surprising headroom on legacy machines. EXO Labs just […]

“The future of AI should be accessible, available, and open to people and builders everywhere, and it should not require an absurd amount of resources only available to a handful of cloud providers,” Paolo Ardoino, CEO, Tether. About 700 million people use generative AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT weekly, but adoption is far from uniform. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI survey found that nearly half of respondents from companies with more than $5 billion in revenue have reached the AI scaling phase, compared with just 29 percent of those from companies with less than $100 million in revenue, a gap that only widens further down the chain, locking out smaller businesses, developers, and everyday users. Retail and small businesses are limited to basic AI utilities that their facilities can power, such as text-based inference and multimedia generation, using base models. That is billions of end users, and developers locked out of full utilization and development of intelligent software due to hi