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For years, tech giants like Google and startups such as OpenAI have been racing to build ever bigger and costlier artificial intelligence models using a tremendous amount of online data. Deployed in chatbots like ChatGPT, this technology can handle a wide range of complex queries, from writing code and planning trips to drafting Shakespearean sonnets about ice cream.Mark McQuade is betting on a different strategy. Arcee.AI, the startup he co-founded last year, helps companies train and roll out an increasingly popular — and much tinier — approach to AI: small language models. Rather than try to do everything ChatGPT can,…