Will LLMs be eclipsed by SLMs?

Abstract

Do you ever wonder why it is taking so long for GPT5 to appear? Is it the lack of enough GPUs for processing? Is this bottleneck telling us something?

The listening247 team was in the forefront of R&D on predictive AI models for the last 5 years. For the last year all we think about is how Gen AI can help our clients become more efficient, increase their revenues whilst making them more profitable at the same time.

We found ourselves spending a lot of time thinking about Distillation and about Niche LLMs initially but now the focus for the last 3 months is small language models for both the predictive and the generative use cases.

It so happens that Open AI is thinking the same seeing how they introduced GPT4o-mini.

In this talk - as usual - multiple case studies will be shown on how DataVinci, listening247's brand new Gen AI not only tells our clients what to do it also does it for them.

About the speaker

Michalis is the founder and CEO of listening247 by DigitalMR Ltd., a London-based tech company specializing in artificial intelligence for unstructured data analytics, research, and customer insights. He has garnered multiple prestigious awards and is recognized as an influential figure in the industry.

Michalis has authored numerous eBooks and articles that have contributed to the advancement of using AI in market research, customer experience management (CXM), social listening and analytics, text and image analytics, and the establishment of private online communities for brands.

Educated at T.U. Berlin, where he earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering, Michalis supplemented his technical background with business training at Harvard Business School and London Business School.

His passion for research has been ingrained in him since 1991, and he has had the privilege of living and working in various countries, including the USA, UK, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Cyprus.

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Michalis held a role as a corporate executive in market research, serving as the head of CEE and after that of the global online research division for Synovate out of Chicago.

This experience provided him with invaluable insights and deep expertise in managing multicounty P&Ls and large diverse teams.

With his commitment to innovation Michalis continues to lead listening247 by DigitalMR in the field of artificial intelligence and data analytics.