Microsoft improved Bing with new large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs), which the company says helped to reduce latency and cost associated with hosting and running search.

While Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI has seemingly begun fraying, the company is still keen on making its mark in the generative AI landscape first-hand. The software giant's ...

Microsoft is advancing small language models (SLM), introducing Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini after the Phi-4 open-source model's 2024 release. These are tailored for low-computing environments and ...

Microsoft’s new Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter language model, represents a significant development in artificial intelligence, particularly in tackling complex reasoning tasks. Designed for ...

Large language models (LLMs) use vast amounts of data and computing power to create answers to queries that look and sometimes even feel “human”. LLMs can also generate music, images or video, write ...

In brief: Small language models are generally more compact and efficient than LLMs, as they are designed to run on local hardware or edge devices. Microsoft is now bringing yet another SLM to Windows ...

Microsoft has introduced Mu, a new small language model integrated into Windows 11 to power an AI agent within the Settings app. Last year, Microsoft revealed Copilot+ PCs featuring a dedicated Neural ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Thomas Levi in his role as ...