Open-Source SLMs: Building Models You Actually Own

The large language model gold rush has created a dependency problem. Teams are building products on APIs they don't control, with models they can't inspect, at costs that scale unpredictably.

The Case for Small Language Models

Small language models (SLMs) between 1B and 7B parameters offer a compelling alternative for focused use cases. They can be fine-tuned on domain data, deployed on affordable hardware, and modified when requirements change.

Our Open-Source Model Garden

At Adaptiv, we maintain a curated garden of open-source models that we fork, distill, quantize, and evaluate. Each model comes with transparent benchmarks, guardrails, and deployment guides.