Microsoft's BitNet inference framework for 1-bit LLMs tops 40k GitHub stars
microsoft · github · 2026-10-12
BitNet is Microsoft's official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs, written in C++. The project has climbed to roughly 40.7k GitHub stars (+195 in a day), making it one of the most popular open-source projects for low-bit LLM inference and deployment.
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