LLMs vs. SLMs: Bigger Isn't Always Better The Rise of Smaller, Smarter Models in the AI Efficiency Revolution

Thu, 16 July 2026

Topic

Choosing the right model size, optimizing with quantization, and building efficient, production-ready AI systems.

Date & Time

16 July 2026

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM IST

Duration

60 minutes

Why Attend?

The AI landscape is shifting. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude deliver impressive capabilities, organizations are increasingly challenged by their high costs, latency, and infrastructure demands in production environments.

Small Language Models (SLMs) combined with quantization techniques are emerging as powerful, cost-effective alternatives that deliver enterprise-grade performance with significantly lower computational overhead.

This webinar explores the efficiency revolution in AI — helping you understand when and why SLMs can outperform larger models, and how quantization makes LLMs leaner without meaningful loss in accuracy. You’ll gain practical insights and a clear decision framework to make smarter architectural choices aligned with your business needs, budget, and deployment constraints.

What Makes This Webinar Different?

🔹 Side-by-side benchmarking of LLMs vs SLMs across real-world tasks — comparing cost, speed, and accuracy.

🔹 Live demonstration of quantization in action, showing dramatic model size reduction with minimal performance impact.

🔹 Proprietary decision framework to help teams confidently select the right model type for their use case.

🔹 Practical, production-focused insights from a practitioner with hands-on experience deploying both LLMs and SLMs in enterprise and edge environments.

🔹 Actionable takeaways you can apply immediately — not just theory.

 

Who Should Join? 

🔹 AI/ML Engineers and Developers
🔹 Solution Architects
🔹 Technology Leaders and Engineering Managers
🔹 Data Scientists
🔹 Product Managers working on AI-enabled products
🔹 Innovation and Digital Transformation Teams
🔹 Anyone evaluating enterprise AI deployment strategies

No prior experience with SLMs or quantization is required — the session is designed to be accessible while delivering technical depth.

Industry Impact

SLMs and optimized models are transforming AI deployment across sectors by enabling on-device intelligence, reducing cloud dependency, lowering costs, and improving data privacy.

Key applications include:

  • Healthcare: On-device SLMs for privacy-sensitive patient data processing and clinical tools.
  • BFSI: Real-time fraud detection and document processing with low-latency, lightweight models.
  • Retail & E-commerce: Fast customer support chatbots and personalized recommendations.
  • Manufacturing & Industry 4.0: Edge AI for predictive maintenance.
  • Legal & Compliance: Domain-specific contract analysis at reduced cost.
  • Automotive: On-device voice assistants and driver behavior analysis.

Attendees will leave with clarity on how to drive efficiency gains in their own organizations.

What You’ll Learn

✅ A clear understanding of where SLMs outperform LLMs — and where they fall short.

✅ Practical knowledge of quantization techniques (INT8, INT4, GGUF, GPTQ) and when to apply them.

✅ A reusable LLM vs SLM selection framework for evaluating trade-offs across latency, cost, and accuracy.

✅ Hands-on awareness of tools and libraries (llama.cpp, Hugging Face, ONNX Runtime) for deploying efficient models.

✅ Real-world case studies demonstrating efficiency gains achieved by switching to or quantizing models.

Meet the Speaker

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Atri Saxena

Senior Software Engineer, Mobility Solutions, NeST Digital

Atri Saxena holds a Post Graduate degree in M.Tech and is a seasoned AI/ML Engineer with over 6 years of experience designing and deploying large-scale language model solutions across enterprise environments. His expertise spans Deep Learning, Agentic AI, and modern orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph and LangChain, enabling him to architect intelligent, multi-step AI systems that go well beyond simple inference pipelines. He has hands-on proficiency in model optimization techniques including quantization, pruning, and fine-tuning, with a strong focus on making AI systems production-ready and cost-efficient at scale. He has collaborated with cross-functional teams to deploy lightweight AI solutions in resource-constrained environments, including edge devices and on-premise systems. Known for his rigorous yet accessible approach, he excels at unpacking complex trade-offs between model scale, efficiency, and real-world performance.

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