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16 Ways to make a Small Language Model think bigger
A practical guide to making small language models think bigger with 16 agent-reasoning strategies. Learn how a simple +strategy tag routes Ollama-compatible... blogs.oracle.com
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Executive summary of events for the last 24 hours
The LLM market continues its rapid expansion, with new research projecting data lineage and custom training platform revenues to more than double by 2030 as AI investment and compliance demands surge; meanwhile, Google Cloud Next 2026 is positioning agentic AI as a centerpiece theme, and Adobe is launching an AI agent to automate end-to-end marketing workflows for enterprise clients. On the model front, strategies for enhancing small language model performance and the debut of Thailand's national LLM (ThaiLLM) highlight a growing push toward both efficiency and AI sovereignty worldwide.
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