What you need to know
- Microsoft has a new lightweight AI model called Phi-3 Mini.
- Phi-3 Mini is one of three smaller models that Microsoft will release, the other two being Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium.
- Microsoft trained Phi-3 Mini using a curriculum similar to how children learn from hearing stories.
- Due to the fact that there aren't enough children's stories to train an AI model, Microsoft has an LLM create children's books to teach Phi-3 Mini.
- Microsoft states that Phi-3 Mini is as capable as GPT-3.5 but that it is a smaller form factor.
