Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research announced Tuesday local time its Phi-2 Small Language Model (SML), a text-to-text AI program that is "small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device," according to a post on the X platform. With 2.7 billion parameters, Phi-2 rivals the performance of other, larger models, including Meta's Llama 2-7B (with 7 billion parameters) and Mistral-7B (another 7 billion parameter model). Microsoft Research also noted in its blog post on the Phi-2 release that...