Forbes

Small Language Models Gaining Popularity While LLMs Still Go Strong

Small Language Models or SLMs are on their way toward being on your smartphones and other local devices, be aware of what's coming. In today’s column, I take a close look at the rising availability ...
Forbes

The Rise Of Small Language Models

Cody Pierce is the CEO and founder of Neon Cyber. He has 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and a passion for innovation. Large language models (LLMs) have captured the world’s imagination since ...
SiliconANGLE

H2O.ai releases small language models for multimodal processing tasks

H2O.ai Inc. on Thursday introduced two small language models, Mississippi 2B and Mississippi 0.8B, that are optimized for multimodal tasks such as extracting text from scanned documents. The models ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
EdTech

Small Language Models (SLMs): A Cost-Effective, Sustainable Option for Higher Education

Small language models, known as SLMs, create intriguing possibilities for higher education leaders looking to take advantage of artificial intelligence and machine learning. SLMs are miniaturized ...
InfoWorld

Top 5 use cases for small language models

Small language models shine for domain-specific or specialized use cases, while making it easier for enterprises to balance performance, cost, and security concerns. Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft open-sources its Phi-4 small language model

Microsoft Corp. today released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve math problems. The company first detailed the model last month. Initially, Phi-4 was only ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Language Models: A Solution To Language Model Deployment At The Edge?

While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and GPT-4 have quickly become synonymous with AI, LLM mass deployments in both training and inference applications have, to date, been predominately cloud ...
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 ...