quantization

4 articles tagged with quantization

March 24, 2026
changelogStability AI

Stable Diffusion 3.5 TensorRT optimization delivers 2x faster generation, 40% less VRAM on RTX GPUs

Stability AI has released TensorRT-optimized versions of the Stable Diffusion 3.5 model family in collaboration with NVIDIA. The optimization uses FP8 quantization to achieve 2x faster generation speed and 40% lower VRAM requirements on supported RTX GPUs.

March 12, 2026
model releaseNVIDIA

NVIDIA releases Nemotron-3-Super-120B, a 120B parameter model with latent MoE architecture

NVIDIA has released Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4, a 120-billion parameter text generation model featuring a latent Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. The model supports 8 languages including English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese, and is available on Hugging Face with 8-bit quantization support through NVIDIA's ModelOpt toolkit.

March 1, 2026
model release

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8, a quantized multimodal model for efficient deployment

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8 on Hugging Face, a quantized version of their 35-billion parameter multimodal model. The FP8 quantization reduces model size and memory requirements while maintaining the base model's image-text-to-text capabilities. The model is compatible with standard Transformers endpoints and Azure deployment.

February 20, 2026
product update

Taalas serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/second with custom silicon

Taalas, a new Canadian hardware startup, announced its first product: a custom silicon implementation of Meta's Llama 3.1 8B model running at 17,000 tokens/second. The startup uses aggressive quantization combining 3-bit and 6-bit parameters. The system is accessible via chatjimmy.ai.