# Small language models are taking center stage

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-01-09
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:28:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1682s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2024-01-09-small-language-models-are-taking-center-stage-zjiy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Small language models are taking center stage," Akash: $300 Million Incentives w/Greg Osuri \| CEO of Overclock Labs,Founder & Akash Network (Bare Metal Podcast), 9 Jan 2024, 00:28:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gI5CWNpDgw&t=1682s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's not how advanced or how new a model that determines the quality, it's really how you train it. So SLMs are taking a center stage now... you can deploy an SLM and train an SLM on Akash.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Arguing small, task-specific models beat LLMs on specific tasks and fit Akash's no-long-contract model; also claims ChatGPT was getting worse at coding.