Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, April 23rd,

2024, I'm Brian McCullough today.

Microsoft has launched new lightweight AI models.

Proplexity has a big new raise. Meta wants other people

to build Quest headsets. Another reason Apple needs to find new revenue and if

Congress really is going to ban Tik-Toc. Are they ever going to tell us why exactly?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Lots of stories of trends continuing today. First up, Microsoft continues to

diversify aggressively. They've launched Phi Three Many, a 3.8 billion

parameter model that competes with gPT 3.5 and they plan to

release 5 3 small and 5 3 medium versions with 7 billion and 14 billion

parameters quoting the Virge.

The company released Fai 2 in December, which performed just as well as bigger models like

Lama 2.

Microsoft says Fai 3 performs better than the previous version and can provide responses close to how a model 10

times bigger than it can. Eric Boyd, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure AI platform,

tells the Verge 53 mini is as capable as

LLMs like gPT 3.5 quote just in a smaller form factor compared to their

larger counterparts small AI models are often cheaper to run and perform better on personal

devices like phones and laptops.

The information reported earlier this year that Microsoft was building a team focused specifically

on lighter weight AI models.

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