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The speedy tempo of generative AI information and bulletins isn’t slowing down, whilst we attain the ultimate stretches of 2023 and the normal winter vacation quiet interval.
Simply check out Microsoft Analysis, the blue sky division of the software program large, which in the present day introduced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI program that’s “sufficiently small to run on a laptop computer or cell system,” in accordance with a post on X.
On the identical time, Phi-2 with its 2.7 billion parameters (connections between synthetic neurons) boasts efficiency that’s corresponding to different, a lot bigger fashions together with Meta’s Llama 2-7B with its 7 billion parameters and even Mistral-7B, one other 7 billion parameter mannequin.
Microsoft researchers additionally famous of their weblog submit on the Phi-2 launch that it outperforms Google’s model new Gemini Nano 2 mannequin regardless of it having half a billion extra parameters, and delivers much less “toxicity” and bias in its responses than Llama 2.
Microsoft additionally couldn’t resist taking somewhat dig at Google’s now much-criticized, staged demo video for Gemini wherein it confirmed off how its forthcoming largest and strongest new AI mannequin, Gemini Extremely, was capable of remedy pretty complicated physics issues and even right college students’ errors on them. Because it turned out, regardless that it’s probably a fraction of the dimensions of Gemini Extremely, Phi-2 additionally was capable of appropriately reply the query and proper the scholar utilizing the identical prompts.
Nevertheless, regardless of these encouraging findings, there’s a huge limitation with Phi-2, at the very least in the meanwhile: it’s licensed just for “analysis functions solely,” not business utilization, below a customized Microsoft Analysis License, which additional states Phi-2 might solely be used for “non-commercial, non-revenue producing, analysis functions.” So, companies seeking to construct merchandise atop it are out of luck.