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Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention. Ever-more ...
Forbes

How Small Language Models Deliver Big Business Benefits

Small Language Models (SLM) are trained on focused datasets, making them very efficient at tasks like analyzing customer feedback, generating product descriptions, or handling specialized industry ...
WRAL

David Gardner: Investing in AI large vs. small language model based startups

Editor’s note: Investor and entrepreneur David Gardner is founder of Cofounders Capital in Cary and is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. Almost every business plan we review today is utilizing ...
VentureBeat

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Very small language models (SLMs) can ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Vs. Large Language Models

The proliferation of edge AI will require fundamental changes in language models and chip architectures to make inferencing and learning outside of AI data centers a viable option. The initial goal ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...

The Future of AI Is Small Language Models

Microsoft Corporation, Alphabet Inc Class A, NVIDIA Corporation, Meta Platforms Inc. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com ...
Wired

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of ...
Quanta Magazine

Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters” — the adjustable knobs that determine connections ...
Computer Weekly

Early days for small language models and AI at the edge

Large language models (LLMs) use vast amounts of data and computing power to create answers to queries that look and sometimes even feel “human”. LLMs can also generate music, images or video, write ...
Computer Weekly

Rev speaks out on the big future of small language models

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post written by Miguel del Rio Fernandez, senior speech scientist at Rev, a company ...