AI reasoning does not necessarily require spending huge amounts on frontier models. Instead, smaller models can yield stronger performance on complex tasks while keeping per-query inference costs mana ...

In a new case study, Hugging Face researchers have demonstrated how small language models (SLMs) can be configured to outperform much larger models. Their findings show that a Llama 3 model with 3B ...

Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods of improving AI models were showing diminishing returns. One ...