Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Small Models: 0.8B & 2B Benchmarks and Edge Tests

Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Small models run offline on phones and laptops; 0.8B and 2B sizes, with mixed reliability on hard tasks.
VentureBeat

Small language models rising as Arcee AI lands $24M Series A

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 ...
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, ...
SiliconANGLE

Liquid AI debuts extremely small, high-performance foundation models for on-device processing

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 ...
Quanta Magazine

Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters” — the adjustable knobs that determine connections ...
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 ...