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ModelBest Drops BitCPM-CANN: First 1.58-bit LLM on Ascend 910B

ModelBest has released BitCPM-CANN, the first 1.58-bit ternary LLM trained end-to-end on Ascend 910B NPUs. This model uses 6x less VRAM than BF16 while retaining most capabilities and is available in four open-source sizes.