# What do you know about the new ANN BitNet b1.58?

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**Category:** Machine Learning
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**Created:** [May 12, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/what-do-you-know-about-the-new-ann-bitnet-b1-58/11358 "2024-05-12T22:47:11Z")
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### Author: ![Elmarlyn\_Calderon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/elmarlyn_calderon/32/2307_2.png) [@Elmarlyn\_Calderon](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Elmarlyn_Calderon)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/what-do-you-know-about-the-new-ann-bitnet-b1-58/11358/1 "2024-05-12T22:47:11Z")

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Recently Microsoft published a Paper on a new artificial neural network architecture whose weights are binary or ternary values ​​(1-bit) and I would like to know how similar it is to the binary values ​​of the weights in HTM