[rakel_rakel]

Hey Siri, show me an example of an oxymoron!

> CERN is using extremely small, custom large language models physically burned into silicon chips to perform real-time filtering of the enormous data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

[msla]

Are they some ancient small-scale integration VLSI design? Do they broadcast on a low-frequency VHF band? Face it: Oxymorons like those are part of the technical world. "VLSI" was a current term back when whole CPUs were made out of fewer transistors than we use for register files now, and "VHF" is low frequency even by commercial broadcasting standards.

[rakel_rakel]

haha, yea they are part of it for sure, and I'm not dunking on the use of them, but I rather smile a bit when I stumble upon them.

Like (~9K) Jumbo Frames!

[sh3rl0ck]

There's no mention of SLMs or LLMs, though.

> This work represents a compelling real-world demonstration of “tiny AI” — highly specialised, minimal-footprint neural networks

FPGAs for Neural Networks have been s thing since before the LLM era.

[100721]

Huh? The first paragraph literally says they are using LLMs

> [ GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — March 28, 2026 ] — CERN is using extremely small, custom large language models physically burned into silicon chips to perform real-time filtering of the enormous data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

[SiempreViernes]

the site might have fixed it, to me it says "artificial intelligence" instead of LLM, still bad but not" steaming pile of poo on you bank statement" bad

[progval]

They changed it from AI to LLM then back to AI: https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism:CERN_Us... and https://theopenreader.org/index.php?title=Journalism%3ACERN_...