Balanced Ternary for optimizing AI (opens in new tab)

Why Balanced Ternary {-1, 0, +1} Could Be the Future of AI Hardware** For 70 years, computing has been binary: 0 or 1. But AI workloads are fundamentally different from traditional computing — and they might need a different number system. Balanced ternary uses three states: -1, 0, and +1. The zero state is transformative: it means "this weight is unimportant — skip it entirely." That's pruning and quantization combined into one step. Why this matters now: Modern LLMs are hitting hardware wal...