Microsoft Phi-4
The small-model thesis: curated data beats parameter count.
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Phi-4 (December 2024, 14B, later open-weights with mini and reasoning variants) extends Microsoft's 'textbooks are all you need' program — synthetic and filtered data producing outsized capability per parameter, aimed at on-device and edge deployment.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.