Salesforce new xLAM-1B model, dubbed the “Tiny Giant,” boasts just 1 billion parameters yet outperforms much larger models in function-calling tasks, including those from industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic. The team developed APIGen, an automated pipeline that generates high-quality, diverse, and verifiable datasets for training AI models in function-calling applications. Its 1B model achieves exceptional performance, surpassing GPT-3.5-Turbo and Claude-3 Haiku.