Kyle Wiggers / Techcrunch::
Microsoft releases three models of Phi-4 reasoning on the face of the face, expanding her “small model” Phi family, which she launched in May 2024 for EDGE application developers– Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with O3-Mini of Openai on at least one reference.
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