Microsoft launches Phi-3-mini AI model

American multinational corporation and technology company, Microsoft, has launched a lightweight and affordable artificial intelligence model code-named: Phi-3-mini.

This launch indicates the company’s strategic efforts to provide more reasonably priced solutions in the quickly changing AI technology market in order to appeal to a wider clientele.

The new AI model is currently easily accessible on Hugging Face, a machine learning model platform, Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service platform, and Ollama, a framework for local machine model deployment.