Model family timeline
Last updated Apr 30, 2025
Phi model releases
A source-backed timeline for the Phi model family, collecting release dates, labs, access details, context windows, and major lifecycle changes.
6 models
Phi-4 Reasoning
AvailablePhi-4 reasoning-specialized model family for math, science, and chain-of-thought style tasks.
Phi-4
AvailableA 14B dense model that rivals far larger ones on math and reasoning, under a permissive MIT license.
Phi-3.5 MoE
AvailablePhi-3.5 mixture-of-experts model, scaling Microsoft's small-model line while preserving efficient active parameters.
Phi-3 Mini
Available3.8B-parameter Phi-3 model released as a phone-capable small model with 4K and 128K variants.
Phi-2
Available2.7B-parameter Phi model showing strong reasoning and language understanding at small scale.
Phi-1
AvailableMicrosoft's first Phi small-language-model release, demonstrating strong code performance from textbook-quality synthetic data.