Open-source releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
Microsoft releases Phi-2
Microsoft releases a small-parameter model demonstrating the value of high-quality, textbook-style training data.
What happened
Event details
Microsoft released Phi-2 on December 12, 2023. The model has 2.7B parameters, is open source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the Microsoft Research model catalog is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model, parameter scale or access condition.
67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source model.