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LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

TII’s Falcon H1R 7B can out-reason models up to 7x its size — and it’s (mostly) open

According to TII’s technical report, the hybrid approach allows Falcon H1R 7B to maintain high throughput even as response ...
Wired

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

A new crowd-trained way to develop LLMs over the internet could shake up the AI industry with a giant 100 billion-parameter model later this year. Flower AI and Vana, two startups pursuing ...
Ars Technica

Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has ...

The Future of AI Is Small Language Models

Microsoft Corporation, Alphabet Inc Class A, NVIDIA Corporation, Meta Platforms Inc. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com ...
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 ...