Microsoft · 2024 · 12 · 12 · 🔒 Editor recused

Microsoft released Phi-4 (open weights)

A 14-billion-parameter open-weights small model from Microsoft Research, trained on heavily curated synthetic data, with benchmark performance matching much larger models on math and reasoning tasks.

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Sources

Microsoft Research — Introducing Phi-4vendor
Hugging Face — Phi-4 model cardthird party
Simon Willison — Phi-4 first impressionsthird party

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