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 ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft releases small but mighty Phi-4 reasoning AI models that outperform larger models

Microsoft Corp. has released three new advanced small language models artificial intelligence models extending its “Phi” range of AI models that include reasoning capability. The new model releases ...
InfoWorld

Small language models: Rethinking enterprise AI architecture

Large language models (LLMs) are the workhorses of AI, supporting ever more sophisticated capabilities and workflows, and approaching near-human level performance. But sometimes more isn’t always ...