MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...
VentureBeat

Meta unleashes its most powerful AI model, Llama 3.1, with 405B parameters

After months of teasing and an alleged leak yesterday, Meta today officially released the biggest version of its open source Llama large language model (LLM), a 405 billion-parameter version called ...
Virtualization Review

Large Language Model Selection -- Why the Parameter Count Isn't Everything

When choosing a large language model (LLM) for use in a particular task, one of the first things that people often look at is the model's parameter count. A vendor might offer several different ...
The Conversation

Large language models: how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Vs. Large Language Models

The proliferation of edge AI will require fundamental changes in language models and chip architectures to make inferencing and learning outside of AI data centers a viable option. The initial goal ...
Live Science

Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

Large language model AIs might seem smart on a surface level but they struggle to actually understand the real world and model it accurately, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our ...
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 ...