Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what's in them. Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model -- aka it can read both text and images -- and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says Phi-3-vision, now available on preview, is a 4.2 billion parameter model (parameters refer to how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands) that can do general visual reasoning tasks like asking questi...