PrismML
Undisclosed
Valuation not disclosed
Caltech spinout built on a compression theory that pushes model weights down to 1 bit and ternary; the Apache-2.0 Bonsai family and its custom llama.cpp and MLX kernels fit a 27B-class model into 3.9GB, small enough to run on a phone.
- Founded
- 2025
- Research area
- General-purpose models — Academic spinout, Multimodal, On-device, Open source, Open weights
- Headquarters
- Pasadena, United States
Founders
- Babak Hassibi — previously Neural Propulsion Systems, Caltech, Bell Labs, Stanford
- Sahin Lale — previously Neural Propulsion Systems, Caltech
- Omead Pooladzandi — previously Neural Propulsion Systems, Caltech, UCLA
- Reza Sadri — previously Caltech, Instacart, UCLA