Stability AI releases Stable LM 2 1.6B, which the company says outperforms other small AI language models on most benchmarks, including Microsoft's Phi-2 (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

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Stability AI releases Stable LM 2 1.6B, which the company says outperforms other small AI language models on most benchmarks, including Microsoft’s Phi-2  —  Size certainly matters when it comes to large language models (LLMs) as it impacts where a model can run.