Stop Chasing GPT: Why Startups Should Build Small, Focused AI Instead

Bigger AI isn’t always better. Here's why smaller, task-specific models deliver faster performance, lower costs and better ...
VentureBeat

Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, ...
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 ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Business Insider

Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are ...

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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 ...