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

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

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

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