Nieman Journalism Lab

Publishers fight Big Tech with small local language models

As 2025 closes, referrals from social media and organic search are dead or dying, and generative AI is coming for facts. But 2026 may grant publishers an opportunity Silicon Valley has persistently ...

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

Microsoft’s 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of “small language models.” ...
Los Angeles Times

Small Language Models and Proprietary Data Represent the Future of Enterprise AI

At the recent Milken Global Conference, K1’s Neil Malik shared why K1’s focus has always been on acquiring software businesses that are the ultimate system of record for their enterprise customers. As ...
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 ...

Small language models trained for your industry can deliver more for your business

Generic AI creates risk - domain-trained small language models deliver accuracy, efficiency, and security enterprises need.
Forbes

Small Language Models, Big Possibilities: The Future Of AI At The Edge

The AI landscape is taking a dramatic turn, as small language and multimodal models are approaching the capabilities of larger, cloud-based systems. This acceleration reflects a broader shift toward ...
Forbes

Unlocking The Value Of Enterprise AI With Small Language Models

Amrit Jassal is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Egnyte, a leading cloud-based collaboration and governance platform. As the pre-training of foundation models confronts fundamental ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Language Models Create New Security Risks

The rollout of edge AI is creating new security risks due to a mix of small language models (SLMs), their integration into increasingly complex hardware, and the behavior and interactions of both over ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user’s computer. If you haven’t followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small ...
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 ...