microsoft/BitNet

Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs bitnet.cpp 📰 News 07/23/2026: 📣 We released VibeASR.cpp — a real-time multilingual ASR inference engine on CPU using BitNet I2_S quantization, achieving RTF < 1 with very few threads on x86 (AVX2) and ARM (NEON) platforms. [Code] [Models] [Report] 07/20/2026: 📣 We released BitNet-embedding-0.6B and BitNet-embedding-270M on Hugging Face — the first 1-bit embedding models that deliver competitive embedding quality with significantly faster inference o...