I tried a few things with it. Got it driving Cursor, which in itself was impressive - it handled some tool usage. Via cursor I had it generate a few web page tests.

On a monte carlo simulation of pi, it got the logic correct but failed to build an interface to start the test. Requesting changes mostly worked, but left over some symbols which caused things to fail. Required a bit of manual editing.

Tried a Simon Wilson pelican as well - very abstract, not recognizable at all as a bird or a bicycle.

Pictures of the results here: https://x.com/pwnies/status/2039122871604441213

There doesn't seem to be a demo link on their webpage, so here's a llama.cpp running on my local desktop if people want to try it out. I'll keep this running for a couple hours past this post: https://unfarmable-overaffirmatively-euclid.ngrok-free.dev

Results: 8 passed, 0 failed, 17 errored out of 25

That puts it right between Qwen3.5-4B (7/25) and Nanbeige4.1-3B (9/25) for example, but it took only 200 seconds for the whole test. Qwen3.5 took 976 seconds and Nanbeige over 2000 (although both of these were on my 1070 so not quite the same hardware)

Granite 7B 4bit does the test in 199 seconds but only gets 4/25 correct.

See https://sql-benchmark.nicklothian.com/#all-data (click on the cells for the trace of each question)

Errors are bad tool calls (vs failures which is incorrect SQL)

I used @freakynit's runpod (thanks!)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597268

For its size (1.2GB download) it's very impressive.

Here's a pelican it drew me running on my phone - the SVG comments are good, the image not so much: https://tools.simonwillison.net/svg-render#%3Csvg%20width%3D...

https://ofo1j9j6qh20a8-80.proxy.runpod.net

  ./build/bin/llama-server \
   -m ../Bonsai-8B.gguf \
   -ngl 999 \
   --flash-attn on \
   --host 0.0.0.0 \
   --port 80 \
   --ctx-size 65500 \
   --batch-size 512 \
   --ubatch-size 512 \
   --parallel 5 \
   --cont-batching \
   --threads 8 \
   --threads-batch 8 \
   --cache-type-k q4_0 \
   --cache-type-v q4_0 \
   --log-colors on

A bit of of benchmarks I did:

1. Input: 700 tokens, ttfs: ~0 second, outputs: 1822 tokens ~190t/s

1. Input: 6400+ tokens, ttfs: ~2 second, outputs: 2012 tokens at ~135t/s

Vram usage was consistently at ~4GiB.

Then found out they didn't implement AVX2 for their Q1_0_g128 CPU kernel. Added that and getting ~12t/s which isn't shabby for this old machine.

Cool model.

Especially considering that these models seem to more or less just be quantized variants of Qwen3 with custom kernels and other inference optimizations (?) rather than fine tuned or trained from scratch with a new architecture, I am very surprised (or suspicious rather) that they didn't do the obvious comparison with a quantized Qwen3.

Their (to my knowledge) new measure/definition of intelligence seems reasonable, but introducing something like this without thorough benchmarking + model comparison is even more of a red flag to me.

[0] https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo/blob/main/1-bit-b...

Got this nonsense answer: Interesting Scientific Discovery: The Discovery of the "Boson" in 1924 by Charles K. Alton ("Chuck") Alton

What it is: In 1924, American physicist Charles K. Alton discovered the "boson", a particle that would later be named after the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. This discovery was made while he was working at the University of Chicago, where he was studying the properties of neutrons and protons.

Why it's significant: The boson Alton discovered was the meson, a subatomic particle that plays a crucial role in the strong nuclear force that holds atomic nuclei together. However, Alton's original work was more focused on the neutron, and he mistakenly identified the boson as a neutron—a common mistake at the time. This was not a scientific error, but rather a misunderstanding of the data. His work, however, laid the groundwork for the later discovery of mesons by Enrico Fermi and Richard Feynman, which was a major breakthrough in the field of particle physics.

Impact on Understanding:

• Mesons are now known to be the carriers of the strong force, which is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. • This discovery helped physicists understand the structure of the nucleus and the nature of nuclear binding. • It was a key step in the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which describes the strong force at the subatomic level. • Alton's work is often overlooked in the history of particle physics, yet it was a critical early step in the field.

Why it's interesting: This story highlights how even early scientific discoveries can be misinterpreted or overlooked—sometimes not because of a lack of intelligence, but due to the complexity of the data and the evolving nature of scientific understanding. It also shows how one scientist's work can be built upon by others, leading to major breakthroughs.

Bonus: Alton was not the only person involved. His work was built upon earlier research by Edward Teller and Leopold Rabi, and it was ultimately Fermi who discovered the meson in 1932 using the "storm cloud" method, where he used a cloud chamber to observe the effects of high-energy particles.

So, while the boson Alton discovered was initially misidentified, it was a crucial piece of the puzzle in the development of modern particle physics.