I ran the tiny Bonsai model on my tiny GPU. Here’s how it performed

The Bonsai 27B model from PrismML is the latest of many to squeeze a large number of parameters (27 billion) into a footprint compact enough to fit on a smartphone. The original model weighed in at 54 GB. However, PrismML claims its 1-bit quantized version — a mere 3.9 GB — can deliver “multi-step reasoning, structured tool calls, vision tasks, and computer-use agentic loops that stay coherent…