From CNET: Many artificial intelligence tools need an internet connection to a massive computing datacenter in order to work. But Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new AI designed for phones and PCs that doesn't require that connection.
The company says that its new AI, called Phi-3 Mini, can rival popular web-based AIs like OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5. Microsoft told Reuters that its new AI can compete with other AIs that are 10 times more expensive to power and run.
"Phi-3 is not slightly cheaper, it's dramatically cheaper," Sébastien Bubeck, Microsoft's vice president of GenAI research, told Reuters.
Microsoft's effort to build more efficient AIs is part of a trend in the tech world to squeeze the impressive capabilities of chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta's Llama, Google's Gemini and many more, into smaller apps that can run on our computers and phones.
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