Tag: small language models

Liquid AI branches six small models off one backbone

Mirendil says Fern 0.1 was trained for under $10M with agents writing more than 99 percent of the…

Fastino ships a tiny open-weight model that makes decisions on CPU

A 340M-parameter classifier from Fastino returns typed answers with confidence scores for agent pipelines.

PrismML bets reasoning models can shrink onto phones

The Caltech spinout squeezed an Alibaba model to 5.9GB while keeping 98 percent of its benchmark scores.

Needle 2 squeezes tool calling into a 14MB model binary

Cactus Compute's new model packs tool calling into 45M parameters and a 14MB binary.