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johndcook.com — FP4: the 16-value float powering billion-parameter models
May 29, 2026 1.4k 1.4k

FP4: the 16-value float powering billion-parameter models

FP4, a 4-bit float with just 16 representable numbers, is now the default inference format for billion-parameter models on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware.

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