TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a smaller and cheaper AI model

OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current cutting-edge AI models, is being released for ...
Forbes

Small Language Models Gaining Popularity While LLMs Still Go Strong

Small Language Models or SLMs are on their way toward being on your smartphones and other local devices, be aware of what's coming. In today’s column, I take a close look at the rising availability ...
VentureBeat

Mistral just updated its open source Small model from 3.1 to 3.2: here's why

French AI darling Mistral is keeping the new releases coming this summer. Just days after announcing its own domestic AI-optimized cloud service Mistral Compute, the well-funded company has released ...
VentureBeat

Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on ...

Google's DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or ...
Wired

OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a ‘Mini’ Model

OpenAI today announced a cut-price “mini” model that it says will allow more companies and programs to tap into its artificial intelligence. The new model, called GPT-4o mini and available starting ...
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 ...
Computerworld

With genAI models, size matters (and smaller may be better)

The future of generative AI could rely on smaller language models for every application an enterprise uses, models that would be both more nimble and customizable — and more secure. As organizations ...
ZDNet

Mistral AI says its Small 3 model is a local, open-source alternative to GPT-4o mini

On Thursday, French lab Mistral AI launched Small 3, which the company calls "the most efficient model of its category" and says is optimized for latency. Mistral says Small 3 can compete with Llama 3 ...
The Verge

Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. is a reporter who ...
ZDNet

For AI agents, bite-size 'small language models' could make more sense

If you're looking to build AI agents into your workflows, don't waste the valuable compute power of large language models on these systems. That's the opinion of a group of Nvidia researchers, who ...
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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 ...