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Boost your AI with Azure’s new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models | Microsoft Azure Blog

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Boost your AI with Azure’s new Phi model, streamlined RAG, and custom generative AI models | Microsoft Azure Blog

We’re excited to announce several updates to help developers quickly create AI solutions with greater choice and flexibility leveraging the Azure AI toolchain. As developers continue to develop and deploy AI applications at scale… Article Source https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/boost-your-ai-with-azures-new-phi-model-streamlined-rag-and-custom-generative-ai-models/

Microsoft Reveals Phi Silica: A Powerful 3.3 Billion Parameter AI Model Enhancing Efficiency and Performance in Personal Computing

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Microsoft Reveals Phi Silica: A Powerful 3.3 Billion Parameter AI Model Enhancing Efficiency and Performance in Personal Computing

AI models have become crucial in enhancing computing efficiency, productivity, and user experiences. Researchers are focused on addressing the issue of high computational demand in AI models, which often require significant power and resources, limiting their use on smaller devices like personal computers. Microsoft researchers have introduced Phi Silica, a small language model tailored for … Read more

Intel Eliminates Support for Knights Mill and Knights Landing Xeon Phi in LLVM 19

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Intel Eliminates Support for Knights Mill and Knights Landing Xeon Phi in LLVM 19

Intel has made the decision to remove support for Xeon Phi in the upcoming LLVM/Clang 19 compiler release, following the deprecation of support in LLVM/Clang 18 earlier this year. This move mirrors GCC’s decision to deprecate and then remove Xeon Phi support in their recent releases as well. The removal of support for Xeon Phi … Read more

GCC 15 Dominates Xeon Phi and Seals the Coffin on Solaris 11.3

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GCC 15 Dominates Xeon Phi and Seals the Coffin on Solaris 11.3

The latest version of the GNU Compiler Collection, GCC 15, has removed support for older platforms such as Xeon Phi and Oracle Solaris 11.3. The decision to drop Itanium support was followed by Intel’s engineer Hao Chen Jiang’s patch, signaling the end for the Xeon Phi architecture that was once expected to compete with Nvidia … Read more

Phi Silica, Microsoft’s new AI designed specifically for Copilot+ PCs, makes its debut

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Phi Silica, Microsoft’s new AI designed specifically for Copilot+ PCs, makes its debut

Microsoft unveiled Phi Silica, a small language model designed to run on the NPUs of Copilot+ PCs, at the 2023 Microsoft Build event. This model is derived from Phi-3-mini, which was announced in April and is small enough to run on a local PC. Microsoft’s Copilot service typically interacts with a remote server in the … Read more