Models
Stability AI trains Stable LM 2 1.6B on seven languages and 2 trillion tokens
The technical report details a 1.6B model pre-trained on seven languages and measures 127 tok/s for a 4-bit build on an M2 Mac mini.
BitNet b1.58 gives every weight three values and runs 3B in 2.22 GB
Microsoft trained models whose every weight is -1, 0 or 1, which replaces multiplication with addition, and reports parity with full-precision Llama from 3B.
MobiLlama is a fully transparent 0.5B model that runs in 770 MB on a phone
MBZUAI published a 0.5B model that shares one feed-forward block across all layers and reports 7.02 tok/s in 770 MB on a Snapdragon 685 phone.
Qualcomm AI Hub opens 75 pre-optimised models and profiling on hosted Snapdragon phones
Qualcomm opened a library of more than 75 models tuned for Snapdragon, with compilation and profiling on real phones in its cloud and two 7B chat models listed.
Meta's MobileLLM trades width for depth and gains 2.7 and 4.3 points
Meta Reality Labs built 125M and 350M models around deep and thin layers and profiled them on an iPhone 13 through ExecuTorch.
TinyLLaVA's 3.1B model outscores 7B LLaVA-1.5 on seven of nine benchmarks
Beihang and Tsinghua researchers report a 3.1B vision-language model that beats the 7B LLaVA-1.5 on seven of nine image benchmarks.
Gemma 2B and 7B open the Gemma line, built on Gemini research
Google released Gemma 2B and 7B with an 8192-token context, weights on Kaggle and Hugging Face under a custom Gemma licence, not an open source one.
MobileVLM V2 runs 1.7B, 3B and 7B vision models on 144 image tokens
Meituan and Zhejiang University report a 1.7B vision language model at 64.2 on six benchmarks and 51.63 tok/s on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin.
Galaxy S24 becomes the second phone line to run Gemini Nano
Google brought Gemini Nano to the Galaxy S24 for on-device Magic Compose in Messages, while the rest of the Galaxy AI features run on Gemini Pro.
TinyLlama pretrains a 1.1B model on 3 trillion tokens
Singapore University of Technology and Design trained a 1.1B model on 3 trillion tokens with 16 A100-40G GPUs and released it under Apache 2.0.
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a 2.7B model it says matches models 25 times larger
The 2.7B base model was trained on 1.4 trillion tokens in 14 days on 96 A100 GPUs, and Microsoft says it matches models up to 25 times larger.
Apple researchers run models twice the size of available DRAM from flash
The LLM in a flash paper loads parameters from flash on demand and reports 4 to 5 times faster CPU and 20 to 25 times faster GPU inference.