Phi-3 Silica
Phi-3 Silica is released 2024-06-01 in the Phi-3 family with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Phi-3 Silica is Microsoft's compact language model tailored for the Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in Copilot+ PCs. With 3.3 billion parameters, it is recognized as the smallest in the Phi-3 family, prioritizing efficiency and low power consumption by processing 650 tokens per second using just 1.5 watts. This model operates locally on devices, enhancing privacy by eliminating the need for an internet connection, which helps preserve battery and free up the CPU and GPU. Its deployment enables real-time applications like offline voice assistance, on-device sentiment analysis, and secure voice search, with the promise of personalized tools and APIs through the Windows App SDK as Copilot+ PCs rollout continues.
Phi-3 Silica is an open-source model in the Phi-3 family. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Phi-3 Silica yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
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Frequently asked questions
When was Phi-3 Silica released?
Phi-3 Silica was released on 2024-06-01.
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.