Forbes

Scaling Small Language Models (SLMs) For Edge Devices: A New Frontier In AI

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o and other modern state-of-the-art generative models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google's PaLM and Meta's Llama have been dominating the AI field recently.
Forbes

Here’s How Big LLMs Teach Smaller AI Models Via Leveraging Knowledge Distillation

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the rising tendency of employing ...
MIT Technology Review

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models. Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri ...
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 ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

Large language models: The foundations of generative AI

Large language models evolved alongside deep-learning neural networks and are critical to generative AI. Here's a first look, including the top LLMs and what they're used for today. Large language ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained

Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support. Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language ...
VentureBeat

Nvidia's Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight

As tech companies race to deliver on-device AI, we are seeing a growing body of research and techniques for creating small language models (SLMs) that can run on resource-constrained devices. The ...
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 ...
Computer Weekly

The role of small language models in enterprise AI

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 ...