The global small language models market was valued at USD 2.35 billion in 2025 and is estimated at USD 3.10 billion in 2026, with revenue projected to reach USD 25.59 billion by 2036, a 23.5% CAGR over 2026-2036. The report covers models of roughly 15 billion parameters or fewer, from those for smartphones, PCs, vehicles and edge devices to on-premises servers and cost-efficient cloud deployments. Growth drivers cited include agentic AI, which generates high volumes of requests that call for efficient models to cut inference costs, along with on-device deployment and sovereign AI programs. Constraints include tight memory supply driven by AI data center demand for high-bandwidth memory, weaker small-model performance on complex reasoning, and EU AI Act obligations that have applied since 2 August 2025.
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