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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Agentic AI

Björn Buchhold

Massive frontier models are bottlenecking your agentic AI workflows. Discover how fine-tuning specialized small language models on a single GPU slashes inference costs without sacrificing domain-specific performance.

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