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In the AI wars, where tech giants have been racing to build ever-larger language models, a surprising new trend is emerging: small is the new big. As progress in large language models (LLMs) shows ...

Large language models unleashed the power of AI. Now it’s time for more efficient AIs to take over. Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI Now Make no ...

French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday – a 10-model release that includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, ...

In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development and deployment because they are ...