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In a notice in the Federal Register published Friday, BIS said the rule eliminates wind gust tolerance as a control parameter and removes national security licensing requirements for drones with capabilities lasting under three hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

"In standard quantum mechanics, time is treated as an external, classical parameter that is not affected by the quantum system being studied," explains Curceanu.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026

Bonsai 8B is an 8-billion parameter large language model, trained using Google v4 TPUs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

By the yardstick of its own goals, the nation’s second-largest school system is likely to fall short by nearly every parameter — taking in sample measures of literacy, math and social emotional learning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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

Several Chinese AI developers are building models with five trillion to 10 trillion parameters, a shorthand figure for a model’s capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

If you’re ever asked to sign a non-compete agreement again, be sure you’re totally comfortable with its parameters.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

It is also surprisingly simple, relying on only a handful of adjustable parameters and a small number of assumptions within the framework of general relativity.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

The company will resume releasing models with open weights, meaning their parameters can be downloaded by anyone, something it paused after reorganizing its AI operations last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

"We don’t really see the creator twiddling twenty knobs to set twenty parameters to create the universe as we know it."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson