Small language models "can do a lot of the tasks we thought only large models could do," Wolf said, adding that they can also be deployed on-device. "If you think about this kind of game changer, you can have them running on your laptop," he said. "You can have them running even on your smartphone in the future."
Ultimately, he envisions small language models running "in almost every tool or appliance that we have, just like today, our fridge is connected to the internet."