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Large language models that use hundreds of billions of parameters are getting smaller

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Large language models work well because they’re so large.

IBM , Google , Microsoft and OpenAI have all recently released small language models.

Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins.

They can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as summarizing conversations.

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