Thanks to their task-specific focus and local processing, this AI model makes sense for a variety of CX use cases. When considering AI for customer experience (CX) use cases, matching the right model to the right task is a given—and, increasingly, this means figuring out if a small language model (SLM) is the better choice over a large language model (LLM). The difference isn’t so much in how an SLM works compared to an LLM, but rather in their scale, efficiency, and where they’re deployed.