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 ...
VentureBeat

Why small language models are the next big thing in AI

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 ...
MIT Technology Review

Small language models: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2025

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 ...
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Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models

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, ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) ...
VentureBeat

Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...