December 15, 2024

Companies like OpenAI continue to push the boundaries with large language (LLM) models in its pursuit of the holy grail of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Meanwhile, Microsoft is taking a different track by continually improving its more efficient small language models (SLM). The company’s newest SML, Phi-4, is proving to be particularly adept at complex reasoning, such as mathematics. Phi-4 is particularly impressive because it isn’t just managing to outperform other language models of a

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