We're open-sourcing Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit — a 440MB translation model that runs fully offline on your phone, supports 33 languages, and outp…

We're open-sourcing Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit — a 440MB translation model that runs fully offline on your phone, supports 33 languages, and outperforms Google Translate. At 1.8B parameters, it matches commercial translation APIs and 235B-scale models on standard benchmarks. By quantizing to 1.25-bit, memory drops from 3.3GB (FP16) to 440MB — 25% smaller and ~10% faster than prior 1.67-bit approaches, with no accuracy loss. Covers 33 languages, 5 dialects, and 1,056 translation directions including minority languages like Tibetan and Mongolian. Our translation model has won 30 first-place rankings in international MT competitions and is already deployed across multiple Tencent products.🏆 📲Demo APK (Android): https://huggingface.co/AngelSlim/Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit-GGUF/resolve/main/Hy-MT-demo.apk 🤗Hugging Face:: https://huggingface.co/AngelSlim/Hy-MT1.5-1.8B-1.25bit 🔗GitHub: https://github.com/tencent/AngelSlim 📄Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07892

Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-04-29