No signal, no problem: Smaller models bring more AI capabilities on-device

When OpenAI’s GPT-3 was released in 2020, at 175 billion parameters, it was the largest language model the world had ever seen. In the years that followed, frontier AI systems exploded in size, with today’s largest models clocking in at well over a trillion parameters. But there is a countercurrent of AI research moving in the opposite direction, with pioneers like Tether building a new generation of smaller AI models .