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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Computer Weekly

Early days for small language models and AI at the edge

Large language models (LLMs) use vast amounts of data and computing power to create answers to queries that look and sometimes even feel “human”. LLMs can also generate music, images or video, write ...
Microsoft

Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Steve Sanderson Previews AI App Dev: Small Models, Agents and a Blazor Voice Assistant

Blazor creator Steve Sanderson presented a keynote at the recent NDC London 2025 conference where he previewed the future of .NET application development with smaller AI models and autonomous agents, ...