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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.

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6 models

Phi-4 Reasoning

Available
MicrosoftOpen weights

Phi-4 reasoning-specialized model family for math, science, and chain-of-thought style tasks.

Dense14B ctxApr 30, 2025

Phi-4

Available
MicrosoftOpen source

A 14B dense model that rivals far larger ones on math and reasoning, under a permissive MIT license.

Dense14B16K ctxDec 12, 2024

Phi-3.5 MoE

Available
MicrosoftOpen weights

Phi-3.5 mixture-of-experts model, scaling Microsoft's small-model line while preserving efficient active parameters.

MoE42B128K ctxAug 20, 2024

Phi-3 Mini

Available
MicrosoftOpen weights

3.8B-parameter Phi-3 model released as a phone-capable small model with 4K and 128K variants.

Dense3.8B128K ctxApr 23, 2024

Phi-2

Available
MicrosoftOpen weights

2.7B-parameter Phi model showing strong reasoning and language understanding at small scale.

Dense2.7B ctxDec 12, 2023

Phi-1

Available
MicrosoftOpen weights

Microsoft's first Phi small-language-model release, demonstrating strong code performance from textbook-quality synthetic data.

Dense1.3B ctxJun 21, 2023