Which option would you prefer to work with in your org: a domain-specific small language model or an LLM?
Small LM24%
LLM50%
It depends26%
Not sure
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Small LM24%
LLM50%
It depends26%
Not sure
Discovering & Engineering Data16%
Operationalizing our ML models54%
Mining our unstructured data21%
Self-service analytics7%
Other (Share below)
Yes, more jobs created53%
Yes, jobs lost to AI32%
Other (please comment)13%
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SLM all the way. As you can see market trends is moving fast to 3/7b parameters LM.