Two spheres of different size facing each other across a measuring scale whose gradations are crowded on one side and stretched on the other

Laya vs Jev: A Challenger With Its Own Scorecard

An open-source challenger to Jev ships with a comparison table. The accuracy claim does not survive reading the rest of the page, but the structural argument does.

September 28, 2026 · 4 min · 641 words
A large model compressed into a fraction of its original memory footprint

Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B: A 27B Model in 6GB

A 27B model squeezed into 5.95GB at 1.72 bits per weight, claiming 98.2% of full-precision performance on its own benchmark suite - and what that compression actually costs.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 565 words
A fading memory node on the left, a reinforced node on the right, connected by repeated access arrows

Hippo: Memory That Knows What to Forget

An open-source memory layer where memories fade on a 7-day half-life unless retrieval keeps them alive - and an unrelated arXiv paper that independently landed on the same idea.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 610 words