Microsoft
Released: 2024-05-21
Phi-3 Medium
Model Specifications
Context Window 128k tokens
Parameters 14B
Pricing (Input) $0.50 / M tokens
Pricing (Output) $1.50 / M tokens
What is Phi-3 Medium?
Phi-3 Medium is a 14 billion parameter model developed by Microsoft, released in May 2024. It is part of Microsoft’s Small Language Model (SLM) family, trained on heavily filtered, high-quality datasets to maximize reasoning performance relative to parameter size.
It offers a 128k context window and is licensed under the MIT license, allowing for commercial use and local deployment.
Key Capabilities
- SLM efficiency: High reasoning capacity relative to its 14B parameter count.
- MIT License: Open for modification and hosting.
- Long-context window: Supports up to 128k context window lengths.
Ideal Use Cases
- On-premise deployments: Running models on local server hardware.
- Code generation support: Writing and explaining scripts.
- Document analysis: Summarizing PDFs and logs.
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