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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 18, 2026

bonsai's document reveal how much cherry picked their headlines are

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bonsai claim 98.2% intelligent retained, but their own documents show Ternary Bonsai 2 27B reaches 52.8 and 60.8, respectively, compared with 69.7 and 80.6 for Qwen3.5-27B, retaining roughly three quarters of the full-precision performance on both benchmarks. that qwen3.5 is a typo cause these are qwen3.8 numbers, altho qwen3.5 numbers are bonsai_2/q3.5 52.8 / 41.6 = 126.9% bonsai_2/q3.5 60.8 / 72.4 = 84.0% Long-context and coding performance. This release also delivers on the roadmap set out in