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parameter

[puh-ram-i-ter] / pəˈræm ɪ tər /


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Using what the company calls a “mixture-of-experts” model, it could run a 30 billion parameter AI model in 3 gigabytes of memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Then, pick activities that fit within that parameter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

They also note that every parameter in the VLE carries significant uncertainty, much like the Drake Equation.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

The company said it is also releasing 1-bit Bonsai 4 billion parameter and 1.7 billion parameter models, with 0.5 gigabytes and 0.24 gigabytes memory footprints, and even higher intelligence density.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

So they use parameter to mean a boundary, a characteristic, a component, an element, a feature, an ingredient, a part, a perimeter, a quality, or a requirement.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Instead of a trillion parameters, efficient small language models might use 70 billion and run on an Apple Mac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

"By controlling the parameters of the laser, you can control the characteristics of the plasma filament -- including its length," says Darshni.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

The new model lets users download and customise the parameters, or "weights", that determine how it computes to their own servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

It may take up a page, or a couple of pages, of mostly bullet-style notes setting out your parameters for everything from your yearly spending to how often you’ll look at the statement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the bottom of the Depression, when wrenching need narrowed the parameters of experience as never before, the liberation offered by the racehorse was, to young men like Pollard and Woolf, a siren song.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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