Small Language Models And The Political Economy Of Intelligent Systems

AI is entering its diffusion phase, and the microeconomic pressures driving that transition are operating with unusual speed.

The Tiny AI Model That Lives Inside the Chrome Browser Hallucinates a Whole Lot

As my colleague wrote on Wednesday, it appears that the Chrome browser quietly and in a squirrel-like fashion hides a ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Tech Times

Visual State Cards in AI Agent Skills More Than Double Small Model Success Rates on Real Desktop Tasks

Reliable desktop automation has long come with a hidden tax: the more complex the software environment, the larger — and more ...

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.” ...
VentureBeat

Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch. Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused ...
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 ...