Microsoft has launched the Phi-3 Mini, the next project in the company's smallest-ever artificial intelligence (AI) model. The AI measures 3.8 billion parameters, which is far fewer than the 175 billion found in ChatGPT 3.5, for example.
With the arrival of the Phi 3 Mini, Microsoft continues its plan to provide three smaller AI models. In addition to the recent launches, the Redmond company plans to offer the Phi-3 Small with 7 billion parameters and the Phi-3 Medium with 14 billion parameters. It is important to note that this number represents the calculation of instructions that the AI can understand.
According to the site Canaltechthe new version of the chatbot performs better than the second version that was launched in December last year and is still able to provide about ten times more responses.
Due to its small size, different companies can use the Phi 3 Mini to summarize long documents, create content for social networks, and manage custom applications that do not require a lot of data.
According to Microsoft Azure AI Platform Corporate Vice President Eric Boyd, the Phi 3 Mini has been trained on children's stories where they use language with simple words and sentence structures that talk about big themes.
In addition to Microsoft's Phi 3 Mini, there are other examples of smaller AIs, such as Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama 3 8B.
The Phi 3 Mini is now available in the AI model catalog on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, as well as the Hugging Face and Ollama machine learning model platforms.
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