INT8/INT4 - Khan BMS Battlefield Management System
A short, opinionated brief on INT8/INT4 — Model Quantization — and the role it plays inside a Khan BMS formation under contested conditions.
Model Quantization is the kind of capability you only notice when it is missing. INT8/INT4 sits inside the OODA loop, not next to it — which is exactly why it gets shortchanged in budget cycles.
Khan BMS doesn't ship INT8/INT4 as a checkbox. It ships it as the boundary between human authority and machine execution — signed at issue, verified at receipt, and replayable for any after-action review the JAG cares to run.
INT8/INT4 is anchored at the Arban — ten nodes under one tactical leader. Small enough to reason about by hand, large enough to absorb the loss of a node without re-planning. Authority for INT8/INT4 is bounded at this tier; nothing the Arban does can poison its parent.
The pitch is not that Khan BMS reinvents INT8/INT4. It is that Khan BMS is the first commercial fabric willing to treat INT8/INT4 as structural rather than optional.