Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
Small Language Models are compact AI models trained for specific tasks or domains. They are faster, more cost-effective, and easier to control than massive models, making them ideal for use cases that require speed, privacy, or domain precision.
Microsoft Phi-3 and Phi-4 are leading SLMs under 14 billion parameters.
Google Gemma 3, Meta Llama 3.2 1B/3B, and Mistral Ministral are popular small models.
Apple Foundation Models on-device for Apple Intelligence are SLMs optimised for iPhone and Mac.