Microsoft's Phi-4 Model, With 14 Billion Parameters, Outperforms Larger AI Models in Math

Dec 13, 2024, 04:36 AM

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled Phi-4, a new small language model with 14 billion parameters, developed by Microsoft Research. This model specializes in complex reasoning and math, demonstrating exceptional performance in various benchmarks. Phi-4 outperforms larger models like GPT-4, Claude 3.5, Llama 3.3, and Gemini Pro 1.5 in competition math and on math benchmarks, achieving a 91.8% accuracy on AMC 10/12 math competition problems. The model's development focuses on synthetic data quality and innovative training techniques, rather than increasing model size, highlighting a shift from the traditional 'scale-first' mindset in AI. Phi-4 scored 56.1 on GPQA, 80.4 on MATH, and 82.6 on HumanEval benchmarks. It is currently available on Azure AI Foundry and will soon be accessible on Hugging Face.