microsoft/BitNet
Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
41.2k stars · 3.8k forks · C++
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 3 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 4
- Human commits, 365 days
- 34
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Jul 27, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 27, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 3
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 12 hours
Responsiveness: of 20 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 34 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 4
- Contributors
- 16
Top committers
- isHuangXin: 32% of commits
- deva100: 24% of commits
- XsquirrelC: 21% of commits
- tsong-ms: 18% of commits
- sd983527: 3% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 17, 2024 to Nov 20, 2024: about 10.8k more stars than usual, peak 2.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Dec 3, 2024 to Dec 6, 2024: about 613 more stars than usual, peak 339 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 15, 2025 to May 19, 2025: about 6.5k more stars than usual, peak 712 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 18, 2025 to Aug 23, 2025: about 369 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 4, 2025 to Sep 11, 2025: about 705 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 3, 2025 to Oct 12, 2025: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 851 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 5, 2026 to Jan 15, 2026: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 716 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 29, 2026 to Feb 14, 2026: about 2.4k more stars than usual, peak 803 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 11, 2026 to Apr 15, 2026: about 9.1k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 23, 2026 to Jun 24, 2026: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 8, 2026 to Aug 12, 2026: about 229 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 10, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 755 more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: microsoft/BitNet
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2