Microsoft launches Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning for fast, on-device AI By Kaanchi Chawla - 10 July 2025

Microsoft

Microsoft has launched Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning, a compact 3.8B-parameter AI model built for rapid, on-device logical reasoning. Optimized for low-latency use cases like mobile apps and edge deployments, it delivers up to 10x higher throughput and 2–3x lower latency than its predecessor.

Key to its performance is the new “SambaY” architecture—a hybrid of state-space models (Mamba), sliding window attention, and a Gated Memory Unit (GMU). This design maintains linear prefill times while blending lightweight memory operations with heavier attention layers, boosting efficiency on long-context tasks (up to 64k tokens).


Benchmarks show Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning outperforming larger models on structured reasoning tasks like AIME24/25 and Math500, while ensuring faster response on frameworks like vLLM.

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Part of Microsoft’s commitment to responsible AI, it incorporates safety measures like supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, and RLHF. The model is accessible via Azure AI Foundry, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA API Catalogue.

Meanwhile, Hugging Face released SmolLM3 (3B parameters) with 128k context length, multilingual support, and strong reasoning benchmarks, demonstrating growing momentum for high-performance, small-scale AI models suitable for on-device use.

 

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