When we read and talk about AI colloquially, industry observers are often referring to “foundational” generative AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama or Google’s Gemini.

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The power of AI models has long been correlated with their size, with models growing to hundreds of billions or trillions of parameters. But very large models come with obvious trade-offs for ...