Eureka Machine quantized LM head to 4 bits despite common wisdom — and it works
altryne · x · 2026-10-26
- Common wisdom from human AI researchers: never quantize the LM head to 4 bits.
- RecursiveSI's Eureka Machine (an AI-scientist system) tried it anyway — and it worked.
- It's part of why Flint runs so fast on a Mac; founder Tim Shi discusses letting an AI scientist pick the architecture.
- Full discussion aired on the ThursdAI show, which streams live every Thursday.
More from Models
- Grok Bot hands-on: auto-logs hundreds of tasks to Linear and runs scheduled security checks — koltregaskes · 2026-10-26
- Muse Spark 1.3 hits 0.6% attack success rate on Skill-Inject prompt injections — maksym_andr · 2026-10-26
- Claim: Opus 5.5 is the best model ever released, with RSI taking off — iruletheworldmo · 2026-10-26
- Anthropic paper finds functional emotion representations inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 — mervenoyann · 2026-10-26
- Grok Bot teased as a voice agent that handles customer service calls and refunds for you — XFreeze · 2026-10-26
- Gemini 4 Argon lands #3 on RSI-Exam self-improvement leaderboard — HuaxiuYaoML · 2026-10-26