Phi-3 is Microsoft’s family of open small language models (SLMs) under MIT, built for high efficiency on modest hardware, and runnable via Ollama.
DeveloperMicrosoft
FamilyPhi
Parametersmini 3.8B / small / medium
Context windowup to 128K
LicenseMIT
Opennessopen-source
VRAM / RAMmini ≈ 3–4GB VRAM (Q4)
Ollamaphi3
Capabilities
- High efficiency
- Modest hardware
- Reasoning
