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 ...

Liquid AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup building AI models with a novel architecture that provides high performance for size, today announced a breakthrough in AI training and customization ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better ...

Small language models shine for domain-specific or specialized use cases, while making it easier for enterprises to balance performance, cost, and security concerns. Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 ...

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 ...

Blazor creator Steve Sanderson presented a keynote at the recent NDC London 2025 conference where he previewed the future of .NET application development with smaller AI models and autonomous agents, ...