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📰 News

-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 on CPUs. ![NEW](https://img.shields.io/badge/NEW-red) +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] ![NEW](https://img.shields.io/badge/NEW-red) + +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 on CPUs. - **1.42x to 2.28x speedup** over F16 on BitNet-embedding-0.6B prefill (8 threads) - **1.32x to 1.74x speedup** over F16 on BitNet-embedding-270M prefill (8 threads) - Supports I2_S conversion with optimized kernels on x86 CPUs