Phi-3 on the edge: Microsoft’s SLM in 2025

Phi-3 is Microsoft Research's family of small language models aimed at the edge, and it competes directly with Llama 3.2, Gemma 2 and Qwen 2.5. Phi-3-mini holds 3.8B parameters and, quantized to 4 bits, fits in about 2 GB, running on a CPU with a neural accelerator, an integrated GPU or an NPU.

December 20, 2025 5 min 293 4.6

Artificial Intelligence

GPT-5: public availability and early impressions

After months of rumors, OpenAI released GPT-5 in early August. The first weeks of real-world use show a picture less spectacular than the marketing suggested and more useful than many expected. It is worth separating what is genuinely new from what is merely incremental.

August 28, 2025 5 min 234 4.4