As a majority of people keep talking about bigger and bigger LLMs their smaller cousins SLMs are empowering a real shift: AI is moving to the edge.

We don’t always need FP128 precision or 100+ parameters. In many cases, FP8 or FP16 with just the right handful of parameters can deliver 95% of the accuracy while being faster, cheaper, and running right on your phone, laptop, or IoT device.

I believe the future is a hybrid model:
🔹 Edge devices run small language models for instant, private, low-cost intelligence
🔹 Cloud models do the heavy lifting, sync back insights, and reinforce fine-tune the edge models

This is how AI will proliferate in the coming months. Smaller, smarter, and closer to us.