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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 ...
Business Wire

Aizip Creates First Arena for Benchmarking Small Language Models

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As many AI applications move beyond prototyping and into production at scale, developers are increasingly confronted with real-world requirements such as latency, ...
Business Wire

Aizip Works with SoftBank Corp. to Launch Customized Small Language Model Solutions for Privacy-Critical Enterprise Applications

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aizip, Inc. in partnership with SoftBank Corp., announced the release of customized Small Language Model (SLM) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions ...
MarketWatch

Small Language Model (SLM) Market worth $5.45 billion by 2032- Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets(TM)

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Small Language Model Market is slated to expand from USD 0.93 ...
VentureBeat

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Very small language models (SLMs) can ...
Digi Times

Small language model competition intensifies as Microsoft expands portfolio

Microsoft is advancing small language models (SLM), introducing Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini after the Phi-4 open-source model's 2024 release. These are tailored for low-computing environments and ...
Computer Weekly

SLM Series - Zencoder: Compact models maybe small, but they are mighty

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev in his capacity ...
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 ...
EdTech

Can Small Language Models Help K–12 Schools?

Everywhere you look in the current educational technology landscape, there’s a newer, better, more promising artificial intelligence (AI) tool. But as the dust settles, K–12 ed tech leaders and ...
Computer Weekly

SLM series: Editorial brief & scope

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. There are language models and there are language models. While, at the time of writing at least, there ...
Morningstar

Aizip Creates First Arena for Benchmarking Small Language Models

However, selecting the right SLM for a given task remains a complex and evolving challenge. To address this growing need, Aizip has launched the world’s first small language model (SLM) arena for ...
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 ...