The View From Inside the AI Bubble

Despite the lack of clear definition—even OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, has called AGI a “weakly defined term”—the idea that ...
IEEE

Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Inference with On-Device Small and Remote Large Language Models

Abstract: This paper studies a hybrid language model (HLM) architecture that integrates a small language model (SLM) operating on a mobile device with a large language model (LLM) hosted at the base ...
IEEE

SynNER: Synergizing Large and Small Language Models for Few-Shot Nested NER

Large language models (LLMs) encounter challenges when addressing few-shot nested named entity recognition (NER) tasks. Traditional LLM-based approaches typically either prompt the model to generate ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
Microsoft

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...
The New York Times

I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...
Psychology Today

The 5-Minute Power Play: Small Talk to Strategic Influence

As a professor of negotiation and influence, I've observed a fascinating consistency in my students: They instinctively value behavioral concepts—the art of rapport, the dynamics of power, and the ...