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 ...
VentureBeat

Mistral just updated its open source Small model from 3.1 to 3.2: here's why

French AI darling Mistral is keeping the new releases coming this summer. Just days after announcing its own domestic AI-optimized cloud service Mistral Compute, the well-funded company has released ...
SiliconANGLE

Liquid AI debuts extremely small, high-performance foundation models for on device

Liquid AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup building AI models with a novel architecture that provides high performance for size, today announced a breakthrough in AI training and customization ...
Hosted on MSN

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 ...

Why small, application-specific models are India's path forward in AI

The logic is straightforward. Frontier model development is capital-intensive, compute-hungry, and concentrated among a ...
VentureBeat

Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

Google's DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or ...
Wired

OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a ‘Mini’ Model

OpenAI today announced a cut-price “mini” model that it says will allow more companies and programs to tap into its artificial intelligence. The new model, called GPT-4o mini and available starting ...
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 ...
ZDNet

Mistral AI says its Small 3 model is a local, open-source alternative to GPT-4o mini

On Thursday, French lab Mistral AI launched Small 3, which the company calls "the most efficient model of its category" and says is optimized for latency. Mistral says Small 3 can compete with Llama 3 ...
Computerworld

With genAI models, size matters (and smaller may be better)

The future of generative AI could rely on smaller language models for every application an enterprise uses, models that would be both more nimble and customizable — and more secure. As organizations ...
Business Insider

Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow Lakshmi Varanasi Every time Lakshmi publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your ...
Microsoft

Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...