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Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet

Phi-3 is the first of three small Phi models this year.

Eric Boyd, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure AI Platform, tells The Verge Phi-3 Mini is as capable as LLMs like GPT-3.5 “just in a smaller form factor.” Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku can read dense research papers with graphs and summarize them quickly, while the recently released Llama 3 8B from Meta may be used for some chatbots and for coding assistance. Boyd says developers trained Phi-3 with a “curriculum.” They were inspired by how children learned from bedtime stories, books with simpler words, and sentence structures that talk about larger topics.

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