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April 15, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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All About Small Language Models
Stephen Ornes writes the following in “Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say” for WIRED:Training a model with hundreds of billions of parameters takes huge computational resources. … Large language models (LLMs) also require considerable computational power each time they answer a request, which makes them notorious energy hogs. … In response, some researchers are now thinking small. IBM, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have all recently released small language models (SLMs) that use a few billion parameters—a fraction of their LLM counterparts. Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as summarizing conversations, answering patient questions as a health care chatbot, and gathering data in smart devices. For more information, read the article.
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