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Bitmoji
Bitmoji is a personalized cartoon avatar system developed by the Toronto company Bitstrips and owned by Snap Inc. after its 2016 acquisition, used most prominently within Snapchat.
Bitmovin
Bitmovin is a video streaming technology company offering cloud-based software for encoding, playing, and analyzing video, founded by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller, and Christian Timmerer, co-creators of MPEG-DASH.
BitNet (1.58-bit model family)
BitNet is a Microsoft Research family of large language models with ternary weights of -1, 0, and +1, trained natively in that format rather than quantized afterward.
Bito dynasty
The Bito dynasty, also called Babiito, is the royal lineage that has ruled Bunyoro-Kitara in western Uganda since about 1400, founded by Isingoma Mpuga Rukidi.
Bitola (Битола)
Bitola (Битола; known as Manastır or Monastir under Ottoman rule) is a city in southwestern North Macedonia at the foot of Baba Mountain, a former Ottoman administrative capital and a UNESCO City of Film.
Bitolterol
Bitolterol (Tornalate, bitolterol mesylate) is a discontinued inhaled beta-2 agonist bronchodilator prodrug of colterol for asthma and COPD, FDA-approved 1984 and withdrawn in 2001.
Biton Coulibaly
Biton Coulibaly, also written Mamari Koulibaly, founded and ruled the Bamana kingdom of Segou on the Niger River in present-day Mali until his death in 1755.
Bitong Semiconductor Energy
Bitong Semiconductor Energy (陛通股份) is a Shanghai-based maker of semiconductor thin-film deposition equipment, founded by Song Weicong in 2008 and active as of late 2023.
Bitonic sorter
The bitonic sorter, also called bitonic merge sort, is a sorting network devised by Kenneth Batcher in 1968 that sorts arbitrary inputs in O(log²n) parallel time.
Bitopertin
Bitopertin (DISC-1459, RG1678), an oral GlyT1 inhibitor developed by Roche for schizophrenia and licensed to Disc Medicine, lowers protoporphyrin IX in erythropoietic protoporphyria; FDA issued a complete response letter in February 2026.
bitsandbytes
bitsandbytes is an open-source, MIT-licensed Python library that enables accessible large language models through k-bit quantization for PyTorch; created by Tim Dettmers, it provides 8-bit optimizers, LLM.int8() inference, and QLoRA 4-bit training.
Bitso
Bitso is a Latin American cryptocurrency exchange and financial services company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mexico City, valued at $2.2 billion in 2021.
Bitstamp
Bitstamp is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in Slovenia in 2011, known for its longevity, licensed in the EU, UK, and US, and a subsidiary of Robinhood since June 2025.
Bitten (TV series)
Bitten is a Canadian supernatural drama TV series (2014–2016, 3 seasons, 33 episodes) on Space and Syfy, adapted from Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld novels, starring Laura Vandervoort as Elena Michaels, the world's only female werewolf.
Bitter Choco Decoration
Bitter Choco Decoration (ビターチョコデコレーション) is a Hatsune Miku song written and composed by Vocaloid producer syudou, released on January 4, 2019, and later added to the rhythm game Project SEKAI.
Bitter Christmas
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) is a 2026 Spanish tragicomedy by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaraglia, about nested autofictional screenplays; it premiered at Cannes 2026 in Competition.
Bitter lesson
The bitter lesson is a 2019 essay by AI researcher Richard S. Sutton arguing that general methods leveraging growing computation, chiefly search and learning, ultimately outperform hand-coded human knowledge.
Bitter Moon
Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) is Roman Polanski's 1992 French-British erotic drama, 139 minutes, adapted from Pascal Bruckner's 1981 novel, starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Peter Coyote as two couples entangled on a cruise ship.
Bitter orange
Bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), also Seville or sour orange, is a pomelo × mandarin hybrid citrus tree. First orange in Europe (10th century), used for marmalade, Triple Sec, neroli oil, rootstock; supplements contain p-synephrine, an NCAA-banned stimulant.
Bitter pit
Bitter pit, a calcium-related physiological disorder of apple fruit (Malus domestica), produces sunken brown spots near the calyx that appear mainly after one to two months of cold storage; managed with calcium sprays, dips, and crop-load control.
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Bitter Sweet Symphony: 1997 single by The Verve from Urban Hymns, built on a sample of the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra's cover of The Last Time; royalties lost to ABKCO until returned by Jagger and Richards in 2019.
Bitterroot Range
Bitterroot Range, also called Bitterroot Mountains, a roughly 450-mile Rocky Mountain range along the Idaho-Montana border; highest point Trapper Peak (10,157 ft), home of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and crossed by Lewis and Clark in 1805.
Bitterroot Salish
Bitterroot Salish (Séliš, also called Salish proper or Flathead), an Interior Salishan tribe of western Montana's Bitterroot Valley, now part of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on the Flathead Indian Reservation under the 1855 Hellgate Treaty.
Bitters
Bitters are concentrated botanical essences in alcohol, dosed by dash; once patent medicines (Stoughton's, 1690; Angostura, 1824; Peychaud's), they became required cocktail ingredients and remain bar staples.
Bittersweet (Madison Beer song)
"Bittersweet" is a 2025 synth-pop breakup song by American singer Madison Beer, released as a single from her third album locket and her first Billboard Hot 100 entry.
Bittium
Bittium (also attributed as Bittium Gray, 1847) is a genus of small marine cerith snails in Cerithiidae, subfamily Bittiinae, type species Bittium reticulatum; molecular work shows the genus is polyphyletic.
Bittle
Bittle is a palm-sized, open-source quadruped robot dog developed by the US company Petoi, launched on Kickstarter in 2020 and sold as a buildable kit for STEM education, makers, and university research.
BitTorrent
BitTorrent, also known as the BitTorrent protocol, is a peer-to-peer file-distribution protocol created by Bram Cohen in which peers download and upload a file simultaneously, serving pieces they already have.
BitTorrent (software)
BitTorrent, also known as BitTorrent Mainline, is a peer-to-peer file-sharing client created by Bram Cohen in 2001 that lets downloaders upload pieces to each other.
BitTorrent tracker
A BitTorrent tracker, or BT tracker, is a server that helps BitTorrent clients find one another by responding to announce requests with peer addresses, carrying no file data itself.