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Apr 23, 2024

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 small language models, with its 7B version outperforming Llama 3 8B

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1. Microsoft introduces Phi-3 small language models, with its 7B version outperforming Llama 3 8B

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  • Phi-3 3.8B available today, and the 7B and 14B versions expected soon.

  • Our view: open large and small language are competing head-to-head with closed ones, but still lag behind in multimodality.

    • Llama 3 400B may change this.

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