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 ...
ScienceBlog

Small Models, Big Rules: A New Way To Make AI Behave

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A new approach developed by MIT CSAIL ...

Can AI learn 'why it was wrong'? — World Model, RSI, AI for Science

This article is long. However, to make it worth revisiting, I have provided three guideposts. Guidepost 1: Confidence Labels ...
VentureBeat

MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: Deliver the fastest on-device ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user’s computer. If you haven’t followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small ...