Microsoft Corp. today released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve math problems. The company first detailed the model last month. Initially, Phi-4 was only ...

Early this year, Microsoft introduced the Phi-3 family of small language models. Today, Microsoft introduced Phi-4, a 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that even beats OpenAI's ...

Last year, Microsoft revealed Copilot+ PCs featuring a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) capable of over 40 TOPS or more. These Copilot+ PCs came with Phi-Silica, an on-device SLM to bring ...

According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development and deployment because they are ...

Large language models (LLMs) use vast amounts of data and computing power to create answers to queries that look and sometimes even feel “human”. LLMs can also generate music, images or video, write ...

In brief: Small language models are generally more compact and efficient than LLMs, as they are designed to run on local hardware or edge devices. Microsoft is now bringing yet another SLM to Windows ...