Phi-3-medium

Microsoft’s 14B Reasoning & Coding AI

What is Phi-3-medium?

Phi-3-medium is a powerful 14 billion parameter open-weight language model in the Phi-3 family, released by Microsoft. It delivers strong performance in complex reasoning, instruction-following, and multi-language code generation, while remaining accessible for commercial and research use.

Built with a dense transformer architecture and instruction-tuned on high-quality data, Phi-3-medium is ideal for teams building scalable, intelligent applications without relying on massive infrastructure.

Key Features of Phi-3-medium

Robust 14B Parameter Model

Offers a balanced mix of performance and cost for demanding NLP tasks across industries.

Advanced Instruction-Following

Trained to excel at summarization, task completion, conversation, and logical flow across complex prompts.

Multilingual Code Generation

Performs well on code synthesis, explanation, and debugging across Python, JavaScript, C++, and more.

Multilingual NLP Capabilities

Understands and processes content in multiple languages—ready for global AI use cases.

Scalable & Efficient

Ideal for deployment across enterprise-grade environments or scalable cloud platforms.

Fully Open-Weight & Customizable

Released with model weights, tokenizer, and config files—open to fine-tune and integrate into your stack.

Use Cases of Phi-3-medium

Deploy as a smart assistant or chatbot capable of advanced dialogue and reasoning across business domains.

Power next-gen code editors and IDE integrations for automatic generation, refactoring, and explanation.

Enable global support systems, document summarization, and intelligent translation engines.

Ideal for academic labs and applied AI teams looking to build on top of a strong base model with full transparency.

A go-to model for medium-to-large deployments that require smart trade-offs between cost and intelligence.

Phi-3-medium

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Comparable LLMs

Feature	Mistral 7B	Mixtral 12.9B (MoE)	LLaMA 3 13B	Phi-3-medium
Parameters	7B	~13B (active)	13B	14B
Model Type	Dense Transformer	Mixture of Experts	Dense Transformer	Dense Transformer
Licensing	Open	Open (non-commercial)	Research-Only	Open-Weight
Code Generation	Moderate+	Moderate	Strong	Advanced
Reasoning Ability	Strong	Strong	Advanced	Advanced+
Inference Cost	Moderate	Low	High	Moderate+
Best Use Case	Apps + Research	Low-cost Inference	General NLP	Scalable Reasoning AI