6. Small Language Fashions (SLMs)
Nadella revealed three new “tiny” fashions throughout his keynote: Phi-3-small, Phi-3-medium, and Phi-3-vision, which, constructing on their predecessors, have lastly reached a tipping level the place they’re sensible and environment friendly sufficient for use in desktop apps.
What does this imply? Properly, to us nerds who’ve been taking part in with AI for some time now, perhaps not a lot. However there’s a enormous market of people that nonetheless don’t know how one can navigate ChatGPT, and small language fashions (as a result of they’re extra streamlined and may be deployed faster for extra particular functions) might be simply the factor to get extra folks in on the AI craze.
