Microsoft releases powerful new Phi-3.5 models, beating Google, OpenAI and more
“Microsoft isn’t resting its AI success on the laurels of its partnership with OpenAI.
No, far from it. Instead, the company often known as Redmond for its headquarters location in Washington state today came out swinging with the release of 3 new models in its evolving Phi series of language/multimodal AI.
The three new Phi 3.5 models include the 3.82 billion parameter Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, the 41.9 billion parameter Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct, and the 4.15 billion parameter Phi-3.5-vision-instruct, each designed for basic/fast reasoning, more powerful reasoning, and vision (image and video analysis) tasks, respectively.
All three models are available for developers to download, use, and fine-tune customize on Hugging Face under a Microsoft-branded MIT License that allows for commercial usage and modification without restrictions.
Amazingly, all three models also boast near state-of-the-art performance across a number of third-party benchmark tests, even beating other AI providers including Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash, Meta’s Llama 3.1, and even OpenAI’s GPT-4o in some cases…”