Robert Hof

A flurry of new artificial intelligence models this week illustrated what’s coming next in AI: smaller language models targeted at vertical industries and functions. Both Nvidia and Microsoft debuted smaller large language models too. Also supporting the notion of more customized models — call them VLMs — OpenAI made its GPT-4o fine-tuning generally available. As much as LLMs have captured much of the attention, these smaller, more controlled models look appealing to enterprises concerned about data governance and privacy, not to mention efficiency. Indeed, Chinese startups are heading in the same direction, partly to save energy and partly to avoid…