Microsoft data centre says Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft’ s Chief Sustainability Officer.
“ As AI scenarios increase in complexity, we’ re empowering developers to build and optimize AI models that can achieve similar outcomes while requiring fewer resources.”
Microsoft’ s Phi-4 is the latest in its series of SLM development. Available through Azure AI Foundry, HuggingFace and Nvidia API Catalog, Phi-4 includes Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini.
Phi-4-multimodal handles speech, vision and text, setting new standards in automatic speech recognition and translation – including a benchmark word error rate of 6.14 % on the HuggingFace OpenASR leaderboard( surpassing previous records).
“ Phi-4-multimodal marks a new milestone in Microsoft’ s AI development as our first multimodal language model,” says Weizhu Chen, Technical Fellow, CVP, Gen AI at Microsoft.
“ By leveraging advanced crossmodal learning techniques, this model enables more natural and contextaware interactions, allowing devices to understand and reason across multiple input modalities simultaneously.
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