Microsoft releases new Phi models optimized for multimodal processing, efficiency Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency. The first addition is the text-only Phi-4-mini. The second new model, Phi-4-multimodal, is an upgraded version of Phi-4-mini that can also process visual and audio input. Microsoft says that both models significantly outperform comparably sized alternatives ...