On December 12th, Microsoft released their latest “SML” or “Small Language Model” Phi-2. This new model is MIT-Licensed. The permissive license makes it a perfect candidate for any experimentation, be it academic or commercial. Phi-2 is also a somewhat “green” model. The model was trained with a lot less power than some of its bigger cousins LLama-2 or Mistral, to name a few. Well, it’s not THAT small (it has 2....

Lately, some friends have asked me to cooperate on a scientific paper regarding LLMs. As part of this collaboration, I had to assess the feasibility of the automatic deployment of an LLM on a public cloud. I’m lucky enough to work at a company focusing on AI and Microsoft-oriented system integration, and we’re always looking for new ways to bring value to the market using cutting-edge services. For this reason, I’ve been tinkering with the AzureOpenAi Service for a while: it offers business users the possibility to leverage the power of OpenAi’s most advanced models, such as GPT-4 Turbo, without sharing confidential organization data with third parties....