
The Small-Model Moment: Why SLMs Are Outshining Giants in 2025
TL;DR: Small language models (SLMs) — think ~100M to ~7B parameters — are winning more production workloads because they’re cheaper, faster, easier to govern, and “good enough” once you add retrieval, tools, and smart routing. Big models still matter for open-ended reasoning and novel generation, but the center of gravity for day-to-day enterprise tasks has […]