Microsoft Unveils Phi-3-Mini | 03 May 2024

Recently, Microsoft unveiled Phi-3-Mini as part of its family of open AI models, designed to be capable and cost-effective Small Language Models (SLMs).

SLMs are AI systems trained on existing data to solve language-related tasks such as text classification, question answering, text generation, etc.
Phi-3-Mini reportedly outperforms models of similar size and even larger ones in key areas like language, reasoning, coding, and math.
Phi-3-mini is the first model in its class to support a context window of up to 128K tokens, with little impact on quality.
- The amount of conversation that an AI can read and write at any given time is called the context window, and is measured in something called tokens.
Microsoft collaborates with Imperial Tobacco Company (ITC) utilising Phi-3- Mini for their ongoing partnership in developing Krishi Mitra, a farmer-focused app benefiting over a million farmers.