Phi-3 (Medium Instruct (14B))

Why we use it

Strong mid-large private option when teams want Microsoft’s compact-training recipe without jumping to 70B.

License summary

Microsoft MIT for common Phi-3 medium releases - confirm the license file bundled with your checkpoint.

Typical deployment profiles

• VPC, multi-GPU

Focus tags

• General
• Reasoning
• Code

Typical use cases

• VPC copilots
• Teacher for smaller students
• Structured extraction

External references

• Microsoft Azure AI model catalog notes
• Hugging Face:microsoft

Related SLM-Works services

• private llm
• custom slm
• slm infrastructure