SLM's are getting boost to reduce dependency on LLM's for every kind of tasks

SLM Article

In align with Alan Trefler view on inference cost of reasoning models industry is embracing SLM’s especially in domain specific AI’s . Agentic AI has changed the thought process of choosing Language Models. This will have a ripple effect in terms of budget allocations. Leadership want SLM’s to run on their edge devices ( mobiles or laptops or onpremise ) . There will be change in traffic between enterprise applications , agentic framework, cloud systems and devices.