Microsoft rolls out Phi-3 models and previews a vision variant
Microsoft just made its lightweight Phi-3 model family available to developers, bringing Phi-3-mini to Azure AI alongside small and medium versions. The company also previewed Phi-3-vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model built for chart and image reasoning. Why it matters: Powerful compact models like this pave the way for real-world AI PC deployments.