Microsoft to Ship an On 1x721p Device Phi-Silica AI Model With All Copilot+ PCs

Phi-Silica was introduced at one of the Microsoft Build sessions for developers. 636u5

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 22 May 2024 14:54 IST

Microsoft to Ship an On-Device Phi-Silica AI Model With All Copilot+ PCs

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Phi-Silica becomes the fifth variant of Microsoft’s Phi-3 large language models

Highlights

Phi-Silica will be Microsoft’s smallest LLM at 3.3B parameters
Microsoft also previewed the Phi-3-vision model at its Build conference
Phi-Silica will run on the device’s local NPU

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Microsoft Build 2024 event. This has now become the fifth variant of Phi-3 and officially the smallest LLM (or SLM) at just 3.3 billion parameters. This new AI model will now be available locally within every PC part of the Copilot+ AI PC class. Notably, Microsoft also announced several new AI features for Copilot+ PCs during its Surface event.

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The development is still considered a major milestone as this is the first time AI models are being added to PCs out of the box. While open-source models are available for enthusiasts to and run locally, such as the LLMs released by Mixtral, they were not offered from the OEM or the operating system's side. With Phi-Silica being integrated into the Windows workflow, it is believed that its functionality will also be optimised.

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Microsoft also announced the general availability of the previously unveiled Phi-3 models as well as previewed a new Phi-3-vision model, which comes with multimodal and computer vision processing capabilities.

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