Phi-3-mini: a small language model for edge devices

Posted 17 Oct 2026

A compact model from Microsoft for settings where memory, compute or latency are tight. It reasons and does maths well for its size.

OrganizationMicrosoft
Released2024
Parameters~3.8B
LicenseMIT
  • Trained on filtered web and code data mixed with synthetic, textbook-style material
  • 4K-token context; a separate 128K-context variant is available
  • Works best in English

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FrameworkPyTorch (Transformers)
NLPLLMEfficiency