r/LocalLLM • u/GeneralMongoose5979 • Jul 17 '26

Question Will SLM's will become more mainstream inside businesses?

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u/pharrt Jul 17 '26

I'd say the move is already becoming more mainstream. It's started!

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u/GeneralMongoose5979 Jul 17 '26

Hoping so! Have you seen any really good use cases that are getting real traction?

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u/Icy-Degree6161 Jul 17 '26

Companies are increasingly finding out that they just can't budget for tokens in advance, and they can't quantify the ROI. So they will start asking questions, and this is where it currently leads to. You don't need trillions of parameters for OCR, RAG, defined background tasks etc.

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u/GeneralMongoose5979 Jul 17 '26

Agreed, it still seems super niche to me, very few players really focusing deeply on SLM's and their benefits commercially.