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 ...
Ars Technica

Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in ...
VentureBeat

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Very small language models (SLMs) can ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...