Microsoft Announces “Phi-3,” its New Small Language Models

Phandroid— The company says that its new Phi-3 family outperforms competing models.

Geeky Gadgets—New Phi-3 AI small language models (SLM) released by Microsoft. Microsoft has introduced a new series of language models named Phi-3, which includes the Phi-3-Mini, Phi-3-Small, and Phi-3-Medium. These models are state-of-the-art in their respective weight classes and are designed to be highly efficient and capable, with the Phi-3-Mini being small enough for mobile deployment. The Phi-3-Mini packs an impressive 3.8 billion parameters into a […]

Ars Technica—Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models. Microsoft’s 3.8B parameter Phi-3 may rival GPT-3.5, signaling a new era of “small language models."

MSPoweruser—Microsoft introduces Phi-3 family of models that outperform other models of its class. Back in December 2023, Microsoft released Phi-2 model with 2.7 billion parameters that delivered state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. In the past four months, several other models that got released outperformed Phi-2. Recently, Meta released Llama-3 family of models that outperformed all the previously released open-source models. Last […]