Microsoft unveils Phi-2, the next of its smaller, more nimble genAI models

Microsoft has announced the next of its suite of smaller, more nimble artificial intelligence (AI) models targeted at more specific use cases.

Earlier this month, Microsoft unveiled Phi-1, the first of what it calls small language models (SLMs); they have far fewer parameters than their large language model (LLM) predecessor. For example, the GPT-3 LLM — the basis for ChatGPT — has 175 billion parameters. GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest LLM, has about 1.7 trillion parameters. Phi-1 was followed by Phi-1.5 …