Show HN: Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B

Introducing Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit version of Qwen3-1.7B.

Boole-1.7B retains 85.9% of BF16 performance using 247MB (13.9x smaller). It outperforms 1-bit Bonsai-1.7B and similar-sized LFM models, and nearly matches 1.58-bit Bonsai-1.7B.

It’s intended for English, non-thinking use. To learn more,

- Blog: https://precisionnumerics.ai/blog/boole-1p7b - Weights: https://huggingface.co/precision-numerics/Boole-1.7B - Chat in browser: https://precisionnumerics.ai/chat/

We're going to ship more capable models soon for the open-source community. Let us know what models/capabilities you want to see next!

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