Tag: SLM
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Green AI and Sustainable Data Science: Reducing Carbon Footprint in High-Density Cities like Hong Kong
The Invisible Cost of Intelligence: AI’s Growing Energy Dilemma In the towering data centers and humming server rooms of Hong Kong, a silent transformation is underway. As businesses and institutions race to harness generative AI and large language models, they are inadvertently consuming electricity at an unprecedented rate. The computational demand for training and running…
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The Rise of Small Language Models and Open-Source AI: Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Data Scientists
Beyond the Billion-Parameter Arms Race For years, the narrative in artificial intelligence has been dominated by scale—more parameters, larger datasets, and ever-increasing computational budgets. This race towards massive, centralized models created a significant gap. For most organizations, especially in the dynamic and diverse Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, the costs, infrastructure demands, and privacy implications of deploying…