Microsoft open-sources BitNet, enabling 100B parameter LLM inference on a single CPU using 1.58-bit ternary weights
The End of the GPU Tax I’ve spent years watching the AI hardware conversation circle the same drain. More VRAM. Bigger clusters. Faster interconnects. The implicit assumption baked into every serious LLM deployment is that you need specialized, expensive hardware just to run inference. Microsoft just kicked that assumption in the teeth. BitNet is an…
