Mistral's Small 4 consolidates reasoning, vision and coding into one model — at a fraction of the inference cost

Mistral's Small 4 combines reasoning, multimodal analysis and agentic coding in a single open-source model with configurable inference effort, offering enterprises a lower-cost alternative to running ...
Wired

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of ...
SiliconANGLE

IBM releases small open-source Granite 4 models for mobile devices and browsers

IBM Corp. today announced the release of Granite 4 Nano, a family of extremely small generative artificial intelligence models designed to run at the edge, on-device or in browsers. The company said ...
VentureBeat

MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest ...
Nature

Exclusive: Start-up FutureHouse debuts powerful AI ‘reasoning model’ for science

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools shake up the scientific workflow, Sam Rodriques dreams of a more systemic transformation. His start-up company, FutureHouse in San Francisco, California, aims to ...