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

Nvidia, Microsoft release new small language models

Nvidia Corp. today released a lightweight language model, Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, that can outperform comparably sized neural networks across a range of tasks. The code for the model is available on ...
Hosted on MSN

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

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user's computer. If you haven't followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...