The arXiv paper was submitted April 2025, the research itself isn't new, but the new is Google's blog post packaging it for a wider audience.
worth reading the original paper alongside the blog post. I think the ppaper has details the blog post glosses over, particularly around the calibration-free quantization approach and how they handle outlier channels.
Interestingly: the research sits on arXiv for a year, nobody talks about it
Google's extreme AI compression paper was on arXiv since April 2025 · HackerTrans
worth reading the original paper alongside the blog post. I think the ppaper has details the blog post glosses over, particularly around the calibration-free quantization approach and how they handle outlier channels.
Interestingly: the research sits on arXiv for a year, nobody talks about it