[thread] Small language models
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/small-language-models

* machine learning models
* processing, understanding, generating natural language content
* SLM more compact/efficient than LLM: large language models
* few million to few billion parameters vs LLM: 100B's - trillions
* parameters: internal variables that a model learns during training
* influence how model behaves/performs

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