Why Large? Tiny LMs & Agents on Edge/Robotics
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
- Track/room: Robotics & World Models · Track 2
- Speaker(s): Cormac Brick
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed
Official Description
big models get a lot of press. small model scale much better. RAM is expensive. The real world needs
tiny models for scale on the edge. This workshop will cover how to combine both for mobile and
robotics deployment. specifically covering: - skills are different on mobile - tiny LLMs <1B scale
much further on mobile/web - how to fine tune and train tiny models. - skills on robotics / edge/
mobile - latest open models for edge (including gemma, qwen, and anything else that happens in next
10 weeks) This talk will focus on open models, including some gemma variants that will be shortly
announced.
Related YouTube Video
From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.
People
Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.
Supporting Slides
- youtube TiET_K E_g slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: youtube TiET_K E_g dense slides (1 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- youtube TiET_K E_g dense slides
- youtube TiET_K E_g reconstructed slides
- youtube TiET_K E_g slides
- Slide-derived terms:
engineering,future,skills,tlms,engineer,edge,example,restaurant,roulette,tral,braintrust,workos,openal,tinyllmsand,agentsonedgedevices,bringing,state-of-the-artagenticskilstothe,edgewithopenmodels