Microsoft has unveiled two new additions to its Phi-4 family of small language models: Phi-4-multimodal, which integrates speech, vision, and text, and Phi-4-mini. In December 2024, Microsoft ...

As LLMs hit the limits of scale and cost, specialized SLMs are emerging as the faster, cheaper, and more private workhorse ...

Microsoft is advancing small language models (SLM), introducing Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini after the Phi-4 open-source model's 2024 release. These are tailored for low-computing environments and ...

While Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI has seemingly begun fraying, the company is still keen on making its mark in the generative AI landscape first-hand. The software giant's ...

In brief: Small language models are generally more compact and efficient than LLMs, as they are designed to run on local hardware or edge devices. Microsoft is now bringing yet another SLM to Windows ...

Microsoft has introduced Mu, a new small language model integrated into Windows 11 to power an AI agent within the Settings app. Last year, Microsoft revealed Copilot+ PCs featuring a dedicated Neural ...

According to analyst Gartner, small language models (SLMs) offer a potentially cost-effective alternative for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) development and deployment because they are ...

Large language models (LLMs) use vast amounts of data and computing power to create answers to queries that look and sometimes even feel “human”. LLMs can also generate music, images or video, write ...

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user’s computer. If you haven’t followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small ...