CNET

GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro: How the New AI Models Compare

Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...
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 ...

Don't Default To The Biggest AI Model: Agentic Systems Deserve Better

This isn't about rejecting large models; it's about having the engineering discipline to use smaller, specialized models ...
VentureBeat

MiroMind’s MiroThinker 1.5 delivers trillion-parameter performance from a 30B model — at 1/20th the cost

Joining the ranks of a growing number of smaller, powerful reasoning models is MiroThinker 1.5 from MiroMind, with just 30 billion parameters, compared to the hundreds of billions or trillions used by ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) ...