While Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI has seemingly begun fraying, the company is still keen on making its mark in the generative AI landscape first-hand. The software giant's ...

Microsoft is advancing small language models (SLM), introducing Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini after the Phi-4 open-source model's 2024 release. These are tailored for low-computing environments and ...

For IT and HR teams, SLMs can reduce the burden of repetitive tasks by automating ticket handling, routing, and approvals, ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Small Language Model Market is slated to expand from USD 0.93 ...

Executives do not buy models. They buy outcomes. Today, the enterprise outcomes that matter most are speed, privacy, control and unit economics. That is why a growing number of GenAI adopters put ...

Last year, Microsoft revealed Copilot+ PCs featuring a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) capable of over 40 TOPS or more. These Copilot+ PCs came with Phi-Silica, an on-device SLM to bring ...

In brief: Small language models are generally more compact and efficient than LLMs, as they are designed to run on local hardware or edge devices. Microsoft is now bringing yet another SLM to Windows ...

Call it the return of Clippy — this time with AI. Microsoft’s new small language model shows us the future of interfaces. Microsoft announced this week a new generative AI (genAI) system called Mu, ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The original title in full for this piece is: From Better Reasoning to Faster QFS, An LLM Just Can’t ...

Editor’s note (September 9th): This article has been updated. WHEN TECH folk talk about the lacklustre progress of large language models (LLMs), they often draw an analogy with smartphones. The early ...