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Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

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167 points galeos | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 09:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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faragon ◴[18 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41880304[source]▶
I'm glad Microsoft uses Bash in the example, instead of their own Windows shells. As a user I would like having something like "Git Bash" for Windows built in the system, as default shell.
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1. aithrowawaycomm ◴[19 Oct 24 07:13 UTC] No.41886203[source]▶
They are using Windows shells, just not on Macs. This is what the caption for the video says:

> A demo of bitnet.cpp running a BitNet b1.58 3B model on Apple M2:

And this is in their Windows build instructions:

> Important! If you are using Windows, please remember to always use a Developer Command Prompt / PowerShell for VS2022 for the following commands