Smaller Is the New Bigger: Small Language Models and the Move to On-Device AI
For years the headline metric in AI was size. More parameters, more training data, bigger clusters, bigger bills. The assumption was that capability came from scale, and scale lived in data centers. In 2026 a counter-trend has become impossible to ignore: small language models (SLMs) running direct…
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- 2026-11-11 10:56 · DEV Community — AI
Smaller Is the New Bigger: Small Language Models and the Move to On-Device AI