Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...
Windows Report

Microsoft’s New Phi-4 Vision 15B Model Decides When to Activate Deep Reasoning

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision 15B, a multimodal AI model that activates its own thinking mode and handles ...

Why Al Models Forget & How MIT Fixed It With Knowledge Retention

MIT introduces Self-Distillation Fine-Tuning to reduce catastrophic forgetting; it uses student-teacher demonstrations and needs 2.5x compute.

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far ...
VentureBeat

Don’t believe reasoning models' Chains of Thought, says Anthropic

We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) gives users a rundown of its thought processes while answering queries. This gives an illusion of transparency ...
Ars Technica

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that o3-pro, a new version of its most capable simulated reasoning model, is now available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users, replacing o1-pro in the model picker. The company ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, o3-mini, communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. On Thursday, OpenAI ...