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Phi-2
Superseded2.7B MIT-licensed model that outperformed Llama 2 7B and Mistral 7B on reasoning and coding for its size.
About this version
Phi‑2 is a 2.7 billion‑parameter, MIT‑licensed model in the Copilot family that was released on 1 December 2023 and is now superseded as a legacy tier offering. It was noted for achieving stronger reasoning and coding performance than larger open‑source models such as Llama 2 7B and Mistral 7B relative to its size.
- API string
- phi
- Tier
- Legacy
- Released
- Dec 1, 2023
Release & change timeline
1 event- Release
Phi-2 released
2.7B-parameter model released under MIT license; outperformed Llama 2 7B and Mistral 7B on reasoning and coding.
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