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Aug 18, 2025
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Quantum-Inspired Compression Enables On-Device AI
- Multiverse compressed models to run powerful AI locally on devices without internet connectivity.
- Quantum-inspired Compactif AI reduces model size while preserving performance for on-device use.
Model Zoo Naming And Superfly Demo
- Multiverse named its tiny models after animal brain sizes and demoed them running on low-power hardware.
- Superfly (94M params) targets simple on-device voice interfaces for appliances and IoT gadgets.
Compressed Model Can Beat Its Original
- ChickBrain (3.2B params) slightly outperforms the original Llama 3.18b on several benchmarks despite being compressed.
- The model proves aggressive compression can retain or even improve reasoning and math capabilities on modest hardware.