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39 posts tagged small-models.

  • Tether’s BotPsy points to smaller phone agents, but the proof is still thin Nov 11, 2026
  • The Label Wording Problem Nobody Tests in Agent Routers Nov 6, 2026
  • LoopVQ and the Hidden Memory Cost of Looped Transformers Nov 4, 2026
  • Memdoor's Claim That Five Small Models Beat One Big One on Hard Coding Nov 1, 2026
  • The Economics of Proactive AI: When a Single 1B Decoder Beats a Two-Model Pipeline Oct 30, 2026
  • A 0.6B Persian Embedding Model That Catches a 4B: What Yalda Teaches About Distillation Oct 26, 2026
  • A 4B Qwen fine-tune points at local 3D scene generation Oct 25, 2026
  • Nanbeige4.3-33B is really a small-model bet Oct 25, 2026
  • What Samsung's On-TV TensorFlow Lite Tracker Tells You About Edge AI Oct 25, 2026
  • When a Benchmark Claim Has No Benchmark Behind It Oct 25, 2026
  • TS2Vec-FM shows small convolutional time-series models still have legs Oct 21, 2026
  • What DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on Dwarfstar tells us about SSD-streaming local models Oct 18, 2026
  • What greedy sampling and expert-skip defaults cost you on a single-4090 Qwen3.8 rig Oct 18, 2026
  • DoubtLess uses a small model to make a big one stop overthinking Oct 14, 2026
  • On-device agents are a systems bet, not just a model release Oct 13, 2026
  • 100B-parameter phone models are a battery and memory bet Oct 11, 2026
  • The missing model is becoming a product requirement Oct 9, 2026
  • Multi-teacher distillation should copy the delta, not the whole teacher Oct 8, 2026
  • EmbeddingGemma 2 and the push toward smaller multimodal retrieval Oct 7, 2026
  • Paradee makes single-voice TTS small enough for a laptop Oct 6, 2026
  • Running Anomaly Detection on the Satellite Instead of the Ground Oct 5, 2026
  • KaliBench Measures Whether LLMs Can Actually Type the Right Security Command Oct 2, 2026
  • Telescopic Language Models: one training run that serves every compute budget Sep 29, 2026
  • Ling 3.0 Tiny makes old CPUs interesting again Sep 26, 2026
  • When a Model Gets Math Right but Reads the Same Problem Differently Sep 24, 2026
  • A Small Model That Steers a Bigger One's Reasoning Sep 23, 2026
  • Xiaomi's MiMo V2.6 Ships in Three Flavors, and the Split Matters Sep 22, 2026
  • Mini-AGI makes local training the interesting part Sep 21, 2026
  • When the Teacher Knows to Quit: RetireOPD and Distillation for Agents Sep 18, 2026
  • What llama.cpp v0.4.1 tells you about where local AI is heading Sep 14, 2026
  • Local LLMs are getting useful because constraints are back Sep 13, 2026
  • Compiling a Prompt Into a Small Neural Function You Can Version Sep 4, 2026
  • Small dialogue agents need repair loops, not just bigger training Aug 31, 2026
  • Puro-2B makes small-model pretraining feel operator-sized Aug 28, 2026
  • Smaller AI models need phone-level proof Aug 26, 2026
  • Daedalus-150M treats CPU inference as the design target Aug 21, 2026
  • Relay-OPD and the prefix failure problem in on-policy distillation Jul 29, 2026
  • MiniCPM5-1B points at the phone-sized agent layer Jul 5, 2026
  • Compiling a Prompt Into Weights: What Program-as-Weights Actually Changes Jul 3, 2026

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