Large language overkill: How SLMs can beat their bigger, resource-intensive cousins

VentureBeat December 21, 2024
AJ Sunder, Responsive

Two years on from the public release of ChatGPT, conversations about AI are inescapable as companies across every industry look to harness large language models (LLMs) to transform their business processes. Yet, as powerful and promising as LLMs are, many business and IT leaders have come to over-rely on them and to overlook their limitations. This is why I anticipate a future where specialized language models, or SLMs, will play a bigger, complementary role in enterprise IT.

SLMs are more typically referred to as “small language models” because they require less data and training time and are “more streamlined versions of LLMs.” But I prefer the word “specialized” because it better conveys the ability of these purpose-built solutions to perform...

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