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LLM Bubble Prompts Shift To SLM Agents
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Trend Micro Research on January 17, 2026, argues the "bigger is better" era of large language models is ending due to rising inference costs and diminishing returns. The piece advocates for agentic AI built from specialized small language models (SLMs) as a cheaper, faster way to scale agents. It warns organizations to rethink model selection and architecture for cost-effective agent deployments.
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