Models Directory — The Latent DailyEvery notable AI model with specs, licenses and benchmarks.https://thelatentdaily.com/en-usParameters, tokens, context windows: the numbers in AI announcements explainedhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/numbers-in-ai-announcements-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/numbers-in-ai-announcements-explained/What "405B parameters", "1M-token context" and "$3 per million tokens" really mean, and which numbers actually matter when you compare AI models.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:35:00 GMTGlossaryglossaryexplainermodelspricingdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techCheat sheet: which kind of AI model to use for which taskhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-choose-the-right-ai-model/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/cheat-sheet-choose-the-right-ai-model/A one-page decision guide: when to use a large model, a small one, a reasoning model, an open-weight model, an embedding model or a specialized model.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:34:00 GMTCheat Sheetscheat-sheetmodelsdecision-guidedario_admin@resolvia-crm.techOpen-weight vs closed AI models: a practical comparisonhttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/open-weight-vs-closed-ai-models-compared/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/open-weight-vs-closed-ai-models-compared/When should you self-host an open model like Llama, Mistral or Qwen, and when is a closed API better? Cost, quality, privacy, control and licensing compared.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:04:00 GMTComparisons / Versuscomparisonopen-sourceopen-weightsdeploymentdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techFine-tuning an LLM with LoRA: a practical overviewhttps://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/https://thelatentdaily.com/guides/fine-tuning-llm-with-lora-practical-overview/When fine-tuning helps, how LoRA and QLoRA make it affordable, how to prepare data, train, evaluate and deploy an adapter — and when not to fine-tune at all.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:49:00 GMTFine-tuning & Trainingfine-tuningloraqloraopen-weightsdario_admin@resolvia-crm.techKnowledge distillation explained: how small AI models learn from big oneshttps://thelatentdaily.com/articles/knowledge-distillation-explained/https://thelatentdaily.com/articles/knowledge-distillation-explained/Distillation trains a compact "student" model to imitate a large "teacher". How it works, why it powers today's small models, and its legal and quality limits.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:48:00 GMTFine-tuning & Trainingdistillationsmall-modelstrainingexplainerdario_admin@resolvia-crm.tech