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Day 24/42: What Is an SLM?

Yesterday, we talked APIs.
Today, we shrink the model.

SLMs are Small Language Models.

Fewer parameters.
Lower cost.
Much faster.

They don’t replace big models.
They replace them where you don’t need everything.

That’s how on-device AI becomes possible.

Missed Day 23? Start there.
Tomorrow, we compress intelligence further: distillation.

I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀

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