MICROSOFT RELEASES NEW PHI MODELS OPTIMIZED FOR MULTIMODAL PROCESSING

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Microsoft has released two new open-source language models, Phi-4-mini and Phi-4-multimodal, emphasizing hardware efficiency and multimodal processing. Phi-4-mini, which has 3.8 billion parameters, focuses on text tasks, while Phi-4-multimodal, with 5.6 billion parameters, processes text, images, audio, and video. Both models outperform similar-sized alternatives and will be available on Hugging Face under an MIT license.