Another category of language models that you will come across is the specialized model. This is more of a catch-all category for a lot of different types of models.

Reasoning models are trained and tuned for tasks requiring, well, reasoning.  Not helpful, I know.  

Sometimes it is hard to define these without using the same words…

These are like the Toyota Camrys of AI models - pretty good at a broad range of things.  

If you read theearlier post about SLMs (small language models), you might be wondering how SLMs compare to LLMs (large language models).  

I’m assuming that you’ve been paying attention to the AI space.  If for no other reason, you are reading a blog about AI…