Microsoft Launches Three Game-Changing Phi-3.5 Models

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Microsoft has launched the new series, Phi-3.5, the latest in its family of Small Language Models (SLMs).

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Microsoft’s New Release to the Phi Series

The Phi-3.5 series includes three open-source small AI models: a 3.82 billion-parameter mini-instruct, a 41.9 billion-parameter MoE-instruct, and a 4.15 billion-parameter vision-instruct.

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Phi-3.5 Is a Trio of Models

Each Phi-3.5 model is built for basic/fast reasoning, complex reasoning, and image/video analysis tasks.

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Phi-3.5 Series Excels Across Several Tasks

In ten days, the mini model was trained on 3.4 trillion tokens with 512 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The MoE model, on the flip, utilized 4.9 trillion tokens and took 23 days.

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A Quick Glance into Phi-3.5 Models Training

Phi-3.5 models are powerful despite their size, as they require low computational power. This makes it easy to integrate them into apps or even install them on IoT devices.

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Smaller in Size, Yet Powerful

The Phi-3.5 models are available for free download and can be operated with a local tool such as Ollama.

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Get Started with Phi-3.5