# The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits

> Microsoft Research proves that ternary-weight LLMs ({-1, 0, +1}) can match full-precision models while delivering 4x lower latency, 3.5x less memory, and 71x energy savings.

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Edition: Week 02 · March 2026
Tags: LLMs, Quantization, Efficiency
Reading time: 13 min read

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