Forbes

Small Language Models – More Effective And Efficient For Enterprise AI

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Exploring Cloud, AI, Big Data and all things Digital Transformation. Frontier models in the billions and trillions of parameters ...

Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Small Models: 0.8B & 2B Benchmarks and Edge Tests

Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Small models run offline on phones and laptops; 0.8B and 2B sizes, with mixed reliability on hard tasks.
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 ...
VentureBeat

Small language models rising as Arcee AI lands $24M Series A

The trend toward small language models is accelerating as Arcee AI announced its $24M Series A funding only 6 months after announcing its $5.5M seed round in January 2024. The company also announced ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...