Microsoft Research publishes Phi-3 technical report

Phi-3 technical report published — phi-3-mini, 3.8B / 3.3T tokens; claimed Mixtral 8x7B-level performance with 69% on MMLU

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Justified the approach of small models deployable on phones through data curation

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14219

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