SLMs Take the Stage at SF Tech Week

October 10, 2025

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Earlier this week at SF Tech Week, we welcomed the AI community to our San Francisco headquarters for a morning of insights, conversation, and a glimpse into the future of agentic AI—powered by coffee, bagels, and Small Language Models (SLMs).

In June 2025, NVIDIA published a groundbreaking paper, “Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI.” The results spoke for themselves: SLMs are outperforming LLMs for most agentic tasks, with higher precision, lower latency, and nearly 10x lower cost.

At our event, we explored:

  • The differences between LLMs and SLMs in real-world deployments
  • Customer success stories scaling SLMs across enterprises
  • The debut of the first SLM-native platform, with collaborative functions, training workflows, and agentic orchestration using multiple SLM experts

Special Guest Spotlight
We were honored to host Ronnie Vasishta, Senior Vice President of Telecom at NVIDIA, as our keynote speaker. Ronnie shared NVIDIA’s vision for next-generation 5G and 6G networks, and how accelerated computing and AI are transforming global telecom infrastructure.

Personal AI Speakers
Our team shared key insights, including:

Alec Lowi, Head of AI Solutions, who discussed Personal AI infrastructure and highlighted customer success stories.

Sharon Zhang, CAIO, who covered How to build a positive-sum AI company”.

We left the event with one clear message: SLMs aren’t just smaller—they’re smarter, faster, and more practical for the next wave of AI.

If you couldn’t make it to this year’s Tech Week, don’t worry — we’ll be sharing more photos and videos from the event soon!

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