Opinion ·
The next AI revolution will not be bigger. It will be smaller.
Original title, in French: “La prochaine révolution de l'IA ne sera pas plus grande. Elle sera plus petite.”
- Publication
- Economie Matin (France)
- Author
- Éric Houdet
- Published on
- 15 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
In this opinion piece, the author, Eric Houdet, argues for the use of specialised small language models (SLMs) rather than giant AI models for companies' document-related tasks, taking the example of notaries' offices that handle sale deeds, gifts and civil status documents. In his view, these specialised models, trained to understand a specific class of documents, offer four advantages for professions such as notaries, bankers or insurers: confidentiality (local operation, with no transit through third-party services), auditability (easier compliance with the AI Act), lower cost and European sovereignty, with Europe able, in his view, to compete on specialised models since it cannot compete on giant ones. The article cites no study, company or specific figure.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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- Country
- France
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Consulting, legal, accounting, business services · Banking, insurance, asset management, finance departments · Government and local authorities
- Keywords
- small language models, notaries, data confidentiality, digital sovereignty, ai act, compliance
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