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.Product Introduction: This highly detailed mid-sized yacht comes with a sleek modern look and dark hues. Detailed look supports to be divided into three modules to show some interior space. The model was built in real life and tested for durability and strength to provide a fun and smooth piecing experience. Simulation and reasonable structure ensures a good building experience, which experiences many modifications and audits. Unique design and color matching boasts very high ornamental and collection value. .Parts Introduction: Made from eco-friendly ABS material, this set includes 2977 high-quality parts in precision casting and molding, ensuring a tight fit with no looseness. The parts free from burrs or jagged edges, are smooth and vibrant in color, with a scratch-free surface. The assembly process is extremely safe. .Detailed Instructions: Comes with QR code instructions with illustrations which can be acquired by scanning with your phone. The steps are detailed and easy to understand, helping beginners quickly assemble. Packaged in bags according to the type, greatly reducing the time for building block enthusiasts to collect their own parts, and also reducing the purchase cost. The model can also be compatible with the famous Danish brand building block sets. .Value and Significance: The model are packaged in exquisite graphic carton, extremely suitable for use as gifts for home decoration collections, etc. And perfect as a gift for block designers with large sets of building blocks and ship theme building blocks enthusiasts. .Notes: Small parts inside, pay attention to use and placement. Please promptly contact us if there is any problem. .Here’s some of the main features: 1: Exterior – anchor bay doors, angled propeller shafts and rudders, 2 hot tubs, outdoor dining and seating areas, etc. 2: Interior – Galley, dining, living space, 2 bedrooms, helm station and seating areas, fully detailed engine room. .My goal with this build was to create a beautiful luxury yacht – but one that didn’t break the bank or take up a large footprint. There are no extremely rare pieces or legacy pieces used – they are all relatively common and readily available.

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.Color: Black .Material: ABS .Product Weight: 2800g .Package Weight: 3500g .Product Dimensions: 60.8 x 12 x 17.8cm .Package Dimensions: 48 x 35 x 10cm .Packing: Graphic Carton .Ages: 16+

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BLUENOSE II PAINTED MEDIUM Model Yacht | Museum-quality | Partially Assembled Wooden Yacht Model For Wholesale

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1. Product description of  Bluenose II Painted Medium  of 84cm long

A brief overview of the Bluenose II Painted Medium  and its unique features

The Bluenose II was the successor of the original Bluenose built in 1921 by Nova Scotia. It is an iconic schooner for the Canadian Maritime Provinces. You may find an image of the Bluenose on a Canadian dime. This model will make a perfect gift for home or office decorator, boat enthusiast, or passionate collector. Master craftsmen handcraft these highly detailed wood models from scratch using historical photographs, drawings and original plan. They are built to scale with high-grade wood such as: western red cedar, rosewood, and mahogany. They are 100% hand built individually using plank-on-frame construction method and are similar to the building of actual ships. Each model requires hundreds of hours to finish and must go through a demanding quality control process before leaving the workshop. The Bluenose II is beautifully painted in a rosewood color with an upper black hull. The masts and booms are painted yellow. All the sails are stitched and meticulously rigged. On the deck, there are authentic lifeboats with ribs and planks. The bowsprit goes through the gunwale and are kept secured with riggings. On the deck, you can see several wooden cabins, companion ways and hatches. There are also metal “Bluenose II” nameplates attached to hull. It is truly a remarkable representation of the Bluenose II. The model is secured tightly on a solid wood base with a brass nameplate. The masts and sails are folded down for easy packaging and shipping. Assembly may take about 30 minutes or more.

What makes Our Bluenose II Painted Medium

Bluenose II Painted Medium in our Yacht Model collection is a true work of art, made with the utmost care and attention to detail. Whether you're a collector or simply an admirer of fine craftsmanship, you can be confident in the quality of our models.

•       100% handcrafted using traditional techniques and modern technology
•       Made from high-quality wood such as rosewood, western red cedar, mahogany, teak, etc. 
•       Hundreds of hours of hand craftsmanship to complete a model at museum quality, ensuring attention to detail and precision
•       No plastic parts are used in order to ensure authenticity and an authentic look
•       Each model goes through demanding in-house quality control before leaving the workshop, ensuring excellence and authenticity
•     Protective packaging with a wooden crate for safe shipping, close-to-zero damage, and storage
•       Skillful craftsmen have years of experience and a passion for their work, ensuring quality and accuracy.

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2. The History of the Bluenose II Painted Medium

In its day, there was no yacht like the Bluenose II, a fishing schooner that combined efficiency, beauty and speed. It was built in Nova Scotia in 1921 to fish the rough waters off the coast of Newfoundland. It would stay out on the sea until its holds were full of cod, using salt to preserve its catch. But the Bluenose left its mark in history as a racing ship. For 17 straight years it won the International Fisherman’s Trophy, awarded to the winner of races among real fishing schooners that worked the Grand Banks. The races created a heated rivalry between the greatest deep-sea schooners from Newfoundland in Canada and those from Gloucester, Mass. With Capt. Angus Walters at its helm, the Bluenose II prevailed year after a year and it became an enduring symbol of the maritime spirit. The Bluenose II was lost off Haiti in 1946.

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Our Bluenose II Painted Medium  model yacht product is a great addition to any room as it adds elegance, sophistication, and a touch of maritime history. It's suitable for display in homes, offices, or museums and is a perfect gift for enthusiasts and history buffs. The model is crafted with high-quality materials and combines beauty, accuracy, and craftsmanship to create a stunning piece of art. Whether you admire maritime history or appreciate beautiful and intricate works of art, the Bluenose II Painted Medium  model yacht is a must-have piece for your antique collection.

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MOC-164800 Medium Yacht Model(2977PCS/Black)

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.Product Introduction: This highly detailed mid-sized yacht comes with a sleek modern look and dark hues. Detailed look supports to be divided into three modules to show some interior space. The model was built in real life and tested for durability and strength to provide a fun and smooth piecing experience. Simulation and reasonable structure ensures a good building experience, which experiences many modifications and audits. Unique design and color matching boasts very high ornamental and collection value.

.Parts Introduction: Made from eco-friendly ABS material, this set includes 2977 high-quality parts in precision casting and molding, ensuring a tight fit with no looseness. The parts free from burrs or jagged edges, are smooth and vibrant in color, with a scratch-free surface. The assembly process is extremely safe.

.Detailed Instructions: Comes with QR code instructions with illustrations which can be acquired by scanning with your phone. The steps are detailed and easy to understand, helping beginners quickly assemble. Packaged in bags according to the type, greatly reducing the time for building block enthusiasts to collect their own parts, and also reducing the purchase cost. The model can also be compatible with the famous Danish brand building block sets.

.Value and Significance: The model are packaged in exquisite graphic carton, extremely suitable for use as gifts for home decoration collections, etc. And perfect as a gift for block designers with large sets of building blocks and ship theme building blocks enthusiasts.

.Notes: Small parts inside, pay attention to use and placement. Please promptly contact us if there is any problem. . Here are some of the main features: 1: Exterior – anchor bay doors, angled propeller shafts and rudders, 2 hot tubs, outdoor dining and seating areas, etc. 2: Interior – Galley, dining, living space, 2 bedrooms, helm station and seating areas, fully detailed engine room. .My goal with this build was to create a beautiful luxury yacht – but one that didn’t break the bank or take up a large footprint. There are no extremely rare pieces or legacy pieces used – they are all relatively common and readily available.

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.Color: Black .Material: ABS .Product Weight: 2800g .Package Weight: 3500g .Product Dimensions: 60.8 x 12 x 17.8cm .Package Dimensions: 48 x 35 x 10cm .Packing: Graphic Carton .Ages: 16+

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This yacht is especially created for customers who would like own a beautifully hand crafted vintage racing yacht that can hold its own against today's modern free sailing fiberglass yachts.

Established in 1930, the 36R is one of the oldest model yacht classes still in existence. It came from the need for a medium sized yacht that could be used on shallow city lakes and easily transported on trains and trams for inter club racing. Mr Stansfeild Hicks proposed a very simple rule for a class that had to fit inside a box 36in X 11in X 9in and must not exceed 12 lb. The idea was accepted by the MYA and the 36R class was born.

This 36R was designed by Bill Daniels recognized as the best model yacht designer of the period. Rather than coming up with a stubby hull design to give the longest waterline possible to fit in the box (the main factor for speed of a yacht), Daniels preferred to compromise a little and allow for small overhanging’s at each end. This produced a yacht that not only performed well but also was a beauty to behold.

She is constructed by the traditional Bread and Butter method from Mahogany above the water line and Pine below and fitted with a beech plywood deck. Her toe rails and hatch are also Mahogany carefully selected for their beautiful grain figuration. Her deck and top sides are given a minimum of 6 coats of varnish, finally being hand polished for a high luster. Under the waterline is enameled old English white. The mast is of light weight .5mm Aluminum thin walled tubing with a traditional timber mast top and brass fitting.  The sails are modern racing Mylar sails and are rigged with a synchronous sheeting system. This form of sheeting allows for quick and accurate sail trimming for both head and main sails together in perfect unison.

But what makes this yacht such a true thoroughbred racing machine is the beautifully engineered vane steering gear mounted on the transom. Based on the Clem and Corby vane gears of the 40s, this vane gear is generally recognized as the best available in the world used even today by top competition vane sailors. Manufactured from chrome plated brass and stainless steel this style of vane gear is preferred because it is sensitive in its action yet robust enough to return exactly to its predetermined setting in the hustle and bustle of race conditions.

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Best family yacht: our pick of the best yachts for sailing with the family

• Toby Hodges
• March 7, 2024

Toby Hodges takes a look at all the nominees and the winner of the best family yacht category in the European Yacht of the Year Awards

There are many categories in the European Yacht of the Year awards, from the  best luxury yachts  to  performance yachts . But some of the most hotly-anticipated options come when it is time to choose the nominees and winner in the best family yacht category.

The European Yacht of the Year awards are selected by a broad panel of expert judges from across the globe. These are people who spend their professional lives sailing and comparing yachts, so you can be certain that the yachts which stand out in this field are truly the best of the best on the market for those looking to set out with the whole family in tow.

A crop of the latest 35-45ft mainstream production yachts, including the ultra spacious Dufour 41 and the smaller sister to the award-winning Hanse 460, plus a couple of less well known yachts, made for a dynamic grouping this year when it comes to picking the best family yachts 2024.

In this, the most competitive size bracket for volume production yachts, there was plenty to like, but two models stood out: the RM and the Bavaria. The former because it’s different and fills an interesting niche that crosses fast cruising with family sailing, from coastal and shoal draught to bluewater sailing ability; the Bavaria because it masters that mix of deck and interior space, performance and handling in a well finished package.

Winner of the best family yacht 2024 – Bavaria C46

The Bavaria and Cossutti Yacht Design relationship continues to flourish and produce standout results in its second generation. The C46’s modern, full shape brings vast deck and accommodation space yet manages to do so on a hull which really performs for its size, and rewards the helmsman with direct feedback.

During my trial we had a good mix of conditions and were able to push the boat, a voluminous hull which becomes reactive once the breeze threatens double figures. We were able to press it during a rain squall, hitting 12 knots in 18 under gennaker, and maintained lengthy double digit spells during some enjoyable sporty sailing. Bear in mind this is a single-rudder boat, yet it still didn’t overpower or lose its grip. It’s impressive, especially given the exceptionally low ballast ratio (20%), which shows the reliance on form stability.

“The chine is a bit higher than the C42 and we tried to make the wetted surface as small as possible,” Maurizio Cossutti told me during our trial. The keel is also comparatively lighter, slimmer and deeper for a sporty feel. It’s clear the German yard has really poured its engineering energy and might into this build – from design to engineering to finish quality, the perceived richness of the C46 stands out (although dressed with over €200,000 of options, this is still no mean feat in a mass production size and brand). So much so that other big yards may struggle to compete.

You could argue the Dufour 41 does that to some extent, but here the emphasis is slightly more skewed towards volume, while it doesn’t quite match the Bavaria for the overall engineering and finish quality. Felci somehow managed to swell the forward sections enough to allow the Dufour to be the first 40-footer to offer four cabins, including two doubles forward. We then learned in September that Dufour had signed a new contract to supply Sunsail charter yachts, which helps explain the draw of all this extra accommodation space.

The price for this is extra weight. Although equipped with a tall rig, the 41 only becomes reactive once the breeze is up to the mid teens, where it can lean onto a chine and employ its generous form stability. But for those after volume, max deck lounging space and a bright spacious interior for multiple guests, it’s a hard model to compete with at this size (full report in YW September 2023 and online).

On paper the Hanse 410 should perhaps have challenged the Bavaria more. It’s the latest in Hanse’s new collaboration with Berret-Racoupeau, follows on from the larger sister 460 which won this category in 2022, and shares that appealing modern hull shape. It showed respectable performance and figures, and proved easy to manage short-handed, thanks to the self-tacking jib and winches positioned to hand.

A halyard issue with the mainsail and a tangled sock for the kite curtailed my sail trials somewhat. We also found the cockpit quite busy, particularly the winch layout, although it is nice and deep for protecting its crew. It makes you query why you need two tables on a 40-footer – until you see them lowered to create sun beds, that is!

Stand out features from the interior were the number of stowage solutions, particularly on the two-cabin test boat. Offered as two or three cabins with one or two heads, the former provides a huge amount of stowage accessible from the cockpit or interior. There’s more in the galley and a multifunction space in the saloon, which can be a full length sofa berth, a proper chart table, or a standing desk with storage below.

Beneteau Oceanis 37.1

The Beneteau Oceanis 37.1 is also all about easy sailing and handling, and proved to be a fun, manageable sized cruiser, particularly the First Line option we tried, which increases sail area with a square-top main and flat deck furler. While certainly an accessible yacht, it perhaps comes across as a little basic. This is the last Oceanis in the new generation eight-boat range between 30ft and 60ft, so the focus is more on evolution than the revolution of its early predecessors. Hence the two- or three-cabin interior seemed a little unremarkable when viewed against the opposition.

The same could not be said for the RM 1380, particularly when you step down the companionway – which doesn’t really feel like going below decks on a conventional monohull as it’s so naturally bright in the raised saloon and helps you appreciate your surroundings. So much so it’s more like being on a multihull. The doorways are a little tight, but the double cabins are of good size thanks in part to the generous beam. The standard two-cabin layout has a practical utility space in place of the optional third cabin.

I’ve long appreciated the plywood epoxy technique RM uses for its hulls, together with the powerful form stability Lombard’s design brings. This comes with the choice of keels, including the shoal draught options of a lifting centreboard or efficient twin keels. We tried the latter and the result on the water is in keeping with the sporty looks: it’s an enjoyable mid-displacement cruiser to sail from the aft quarters. Then there’s the superb winch layout, which sees the primaries positioned inboard for use standing under the protection of the coachoof and sprayhood. For offshore sailing the open transom can be closed off with a platform. It’s not perfect, but the RM is intriguing and versatile.

Elan Impression 43

Another memorable interior is to be found on the Elan Impression 43. The rustic knotted oak finish is unique, the only option Elan offers and something the Slovenian yard wanted style gurus Pininfarina to maintain to identify it from the sportier ranges. Personally, I like the strong focus on timber as it helps showcase Elan’s heritage, but appreciate it won’t suit all tastes.

These mid size Impressions are the mainstay of Elan’s sailing range, the family and charter staples for the Med. This Humphreys-designed update has a modernised shape, but retains the older style and the hull rocker to keep a soft, smooth sailing experience. It’s rigged with a genoa or self tacker and two to four winches. Although somewhat unremarkable in terms of sailing performance, it fits its purpose, while the increased aft beam allows for larger aft cabins and a service tunnel between them.

In an age where we need to focus on making things last, my preconceptions of the Maxus 35 revolved around questioning the need for a lower budget Polish build. Why not just buy a proven second-hand yacht? That said, the Northman shipyard has done a respectable job on this, the largest Maxus yet, in terms of the build and finish for the price. It feels solid throughout, the interior is light and inviting and it is worth consideration as an entry level yacht with reasonable accommodation.

I can also see some appeal of the centreboard design for lake sailing. However there was little to take home with regards to the design or sailing experience, so my conclusions mirror my first thoughts.Best family yacht 2023

Best family yacht 2023

Best family yacht winner – linjett 39.

This is quite possibly the best boat you haven’t heard of. The 39 offers easy, fast family cruising and occasional racing in luxurious comfort and proves that classic needn’t be old fashioned.

Linjett exudes Scandi heritage: a third generation 50-year-old brand, it’s run by three brothers and has built 900 yachts from its Rosättra yard in Sweden, which dates from to the 19th Century. Its business model is based on long production runs – think evergreen rather than trendy. Linjett not only designs, engineers and builds its own boats, but services and maintains them too, with 220 in winter storage. It also now produces the high performance Shogun Yachts in carbon epoxy, which hints at the skill levels of its infusion techniques.

A telling result at sea is how quiet the yacht is. Sturdy and stable, it instils instant confidence and proved a delight to sail. We had some very pleasant upwind beats, pointing high, and some lively reaching, hitting double figures a few times while pushing it under 150m2 gennaker in waves. The Linjett is set up to easily short-hand it too, with two winches and a bank of clutches each side positioned aft in reach of the helm.

The interior is offered with two or three cabins and the latter we saw had an excellent layout, including separate shower/wet hanging compartment aft. Joiner work is first class, with traditional mahogany used as standard, or the more contemporary European Oak on the test boat.

This is a premium yacht, but you get what you pay for. It will surprise most and ensure everyone steps ashore smiling. See our full review next month.

The Dufour 37 may be shorter than the old 360, but Dufour was reluctant to brand this 37 as smaller because its modern, broadened hull shape has resulted in an enlarged deck space, cockpit and owner’s cabin. Felci has designed a clever hull that sails well with good performance for its (34ft) size. The aft quarters behind the helms feel compact to maximise cockpit size, but proved comfortable enough to sail from. The primaries are in reach of the helm and we liked the lightweight, low friction jib sheet adjusters.

The 37 is offered in Easy (two winch), Ocean (cruising), or Performance versions and with a two- or three- cabin layout. The test boat was the most popular Ocean model, although it had €100,000 worth of optional extras including sails, engine and bow thruster, resulting in an expensive yacht for its length.

For those who recognise the Bente name, we previously featured it in detail in 2015 when it burst onto the scene with an innovative and affordable new 24-footer (around 150 of which have been built in Poland). We then tested its 39 in 2019, a year before the yard then filed for bankruptcy. But it’s now back under new ownership with this really impressive and more refined Bente 28, again by Judel/Vrolijk.

It’s a fun yacht to sail, easy to short-hand, with sprightly performance, especially when reaching. The coachroof is part of the deck structure and proves crucial in providing light, space and headroom below in an ergonomic interior that has been very well thought out.

All in all it’s a great compact, entry-level cruiser, with a practical, well protected cockpit.

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Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet

Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other llms..

By Emilia David , a reporter who covers AI. Prior to joining The Verge, she covered the intersection between technology, finance, and the economy.

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Microsoft launched the next version of its lightweight AI model Phi-3 Mini, the first of three small models the company plans to release. 

Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters and is trained on a data set that is smaller relative to large language models like GPT-4. It is now available on Azure, Hugging Face, and Ollama. Microsoft plans to release Phi-3 Small (7B parameters) and Phi-3 Medium (14B parameters). Parameters refer to how many complex instructions a model can understand. 

The company released Phi-2 in December , which performed just as well as bigger models like Llama 2. Microsoft says Phi-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 Phi-3 Mini is as capable as LLMs like GPT-3.5 “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 . Along with Phi, the company has also built Orca-Math , a model focused on solving math problems.

Microsoft’s competitors have their own small AI models as well, most of which target simpler tasks like document summarization or coding assistance. Google’s Gemma 2B and 7B are good for simple chatbots and language-related work. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku can read dense research papers with graphs and summarize them quickly, while the recently released Llama 3 8B from Meta may be used for some chatbots and for coding assistance.

Boyd says developers trained Phi-3 with a “curriculum.” They were inspired by how children learned from bedtime stories, books with simpler words, and sentence structures that talk about larger topics.

“There aren’t enough children’s books out there, so we took a list of more than 3,000 words and asked an LLM to make ‘children’s books’ to teach Phi,” Boyd says. 

He added that Phi-3 simply built on what previous iterations learned. While Phi-1 focused on coding and Phi-2 began to learn to reason, Phi-3 is better at coding and reasoning. While the Phi-3 family of models knows some general knowledge, it cannot beat a GPT-4 or another LLM in breadth — there’s a big difference in the kind of answers you can get from a LLM trained on the entirety of the internet versus a smaller model like Phi-3.

Boyd says that companies often find that smaller models like Phi-3 work better for their custom applications since, for a lot of companies, their internal data sets are going to be on the smaller side anyway. And because these models use less computing power, they are often far more affordable. 

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Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential

• Sally Beatty

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller package.

Last year, after spending his workday thinking through potential solutions to machine learning riddles, Microsoft’s Ronen Eldan was reading bedtime stories to his daughter when he thought to himself, “how did she learn this word? How does she know how to connect these words?” 

That led the Microsoft Research machine learning expert to wonder how much an AI model could learn using only words a 4-year-old could understand – and ultimately to an innovative training approach that’s produced a new class of more capable small language models that promises to make AI more accessible to more people.

Large language models (LLMs) have created exciting new opportunities to be more productive and creative using AI.  But their size means they can require significant computing resources to operate. 

While those models will still be the gold standard for solving many types of complex tasks, Microsoft has been developing a series of small language models (SLMs) that offer many of the same capabilities found in LLMs but are smaller in size and are trained on smaller amounts of data.

The company announced today the Phi-3 family of open models , the most capable and cost-effective small language models available. Phi-3 models outperform models of the same size and next size up across a variety of benchmarks that evaluate language, coding and math capabilities, thanks to training innovations developed by Microsoft researchers.

Microsoft is now making the first in that family of more powerful small language models publicly available: Phi-3-mini , measuring 3.8 billion parameters, which performs better than models twice its size, the company said.

Starting today, it will be available in the Microsoft Azure AI Model Catalog and on Hugging Face , a platform for machine learning models, as well as Ollama , a lightweight framework for running models on a local machine. It will also be available as an NVIDIA NIM  microservice with a standard API interface that can be deployed anywhere. 

Microsoft also announced additional models to the Phi-3 family are coming soon to offer more choice across quality and cost. Phi-3-small (7 billion parameters) and Phi-3-medium (14 billion parameters) will be available in the Azure AI Model Catalog and other model gardens shortly. 

Small language models are designed to perform well for simpler tasks, are more accessible and easier to use for organizations with limited resources and they can be more easily fine-tuned to meet specific needs. 

“What we’re going to start to see is not a shift from large to small, but a shift from a singular category of models to a portfolio of models where customers get the ability to make a decision on what is the best model for their scenario,” said Sonali Yadav, principal product manager for Generative AI at Microsoft.

“Some customers may only need small models, some will need big models and many are going to want to combine both in a variety of ways,” said Luis Vargas, vice president of AI at Microsoft.

Choosing the right language model depends on an organization’s specific needs, the complexity of the task and available resources. Small language models are well suited for organizations looking to build applications that can run locally on a device (as opposed to the cloud) and where a task doesn’t require extensive reasoning or a quick response is needed.

Large language models are more suited for applications that need orchestration of complex tasks involving advanced reasoning, data analysis and understanding of context.  

Small language models also offer potential solutions for regulated industries and sectors that encounter situations where they need high quality results but want to keep data on their own premises, said Yadav. 

Vargas and Yadav are particularly excited about the opportunities to place more capable SLMs on smartphones and other mobile devices that operate “at the edge,” not connected to the cloud. (Think of car computers, PCs without Wi-Fi, traffic systems, smart sensors on a factory floor, remote cameras or devices that monitor environmental compliance.) By keeping data within the device, users can “minimize latency and maximize privacy,” said Vargas. 

Latency refers to the delay that can occur when LLMs communicate with the cloud to retrieve information used to generate answers to users prompts. In some instances, high-quality answers are worth waiting for while in other scenarios speed is more important to user satisfaction.

Because SLMs can work offline, more people will be able to put AI to work in ways that haven’t previously been possible, Vargas said. 

For instance, SLMs could also be put to use in rural areas that lack cell service. Consider a farmer inspecting crops who finds signs of disease on a leaf or branch. Using a SLM with visual capability, the farmer could take a picture of the crop at issue and get immediate recommendations on how to treat pests or disease.  

“If you are in a part of the world that doesn’t have a good network,” said Vargas, “you are still going to be able to have AI experiences on your device.”    

The role of high-quality data  

Just as the name implies, compared to LLMs, SLMs are tiny, at least by AI standards. Phi-3-mini has “only” 3.8 billion parameters – a unit of measure that refers to the algorithmic knobs on a model that help determine its output. By contrast, the biggest large language models are many orders of magnitude larger.

The huge advances in generative AI ushered in by large language models were largely thought to be enabled by their sheer size. But the Microsoft team was able to develop small language models that can deliver outsized results in a tiny package. This breakthrough was enabled by a highly selective approach to training data – which is where children’s books come into play.

To date, the standard way to train large language models has been to use massive amounts of data from the internet. This was thought to be the only way to meet this type of model’s huge appetite for content, which it needs to “learn” to understand the nuances of language and generate intelligent answers to user prompts. But Microsoft researchers had a different idea.

“Instead of training on just raw web data, why don’t you look for data which is of extremely high quality?” asked Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft vice president of generative AI research who has led the company’s efforts to develop more capable small language models. But where to focus?

Inspired by Eldan’s nightly reading ritual with his daughter, Microsoft researchers decided to create a discrete dataset starting with 3,000 words – including a roughly equal number of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Then they asked a large language model to create a children’s story using one noun, one verb and one adjective from the list – a prompt they repeated millions of times over several days, generating millions of tiny children’s stories.

They dubbed the resulting dataset “TinyStories” and used it to train very small language models of around 10 million parameters. To their surprise, when prompted to create its own stories, the small language model trained on TinyStories generated fluent narratives with perfect grammar.

Next, they took their experiment up a grade, so to speak. This time a bigger group of researchers used carefully selected publicly-available data that was filtered based on educational value and content quality to train Phi-1. After collecting publicly available information into an initial dataset, they used a prompting and seeding formula inspired by the one used for TinyStories, but took it one step further and made it more sophisticated, so that it would capture a wider scope of data. To ensure high quality, they repeatedly filtered the resulting content before feeding it back into a LLM for further synthesizing. In this way, over several weeks, they built up a corpus of data large enough to train a more capable SLM.

“A lot of care goes into producing these synthetic data,” Bubeck said, referring to data generated by AI, “looking over it, making sure it makes sense, filtering it out. We don’t take everything that we produce.” They dubbed this dataset “CodeTextbook.” 

The researchers further enhanced the dataset by approaching data selection like a teacher breaking down difficult concepts for a student. “Because it’s reading from textbook-like material, from quality documents that explain things very, very well,” said Bubeck, “you make the task of the language model to read and understand this material much easier.”

Distinguishing between high- and low-quality information isn’t difficult for a human, but sorting through more than a terabyte of data that Microsoft researchers determined they would need to train their SLM would be impossible without help from a LLM. 

“The power of the current generation of large language models is really an enabler that we didn’t have before in terms of synthetic data generation,” said Ece Kamar, a Microsoft vice president who leads the Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Lab, where the new training approach was developed. 

Starting with carefully selected data helps reduce the likelihood of models returning unwanted or inappropriate responses, but it’s not sufficient to guard against all potential safety challenges. As with all generative AI model releases, Microsoft’s product and responsible AI teams used a multi-layered approach to manage and mitigate risks in developing Phi-3 models.

For instance, after initial training they provided additional examples and feedback on how the models should ideally respond, which builds in an additional safety layer and helps the model generate high-quality results. Each model also undergoes assessment, testing and manual red-teaming, in which experts identify and address potential vulnerabilities.

Finally, developers using the Phi-3 model family can also take advantage of a suite of tools available in Azure AI  to help them build safer and more trustworthy applications.  

Choosing the right-size language model for the right task

But even small language models trained on high quality data have limitations. They are not designed for in-depth knowledge retrieval, where large language models excel due to their greater capacity and training using much larger data sets.

LLMs are better than SLMs at complex reasoning over large amounts of information due to their size and processing power. That’s a function that could be relevant for drug discovery, for example, by helping to pore through vast stores of scientific papers, analyze complex patterns and understand interactions between genes, proteins or chemicals. 

“Anything that involves things like planning where you have a task, and the task is complicated enough that you need to figure out how to partition that task into a set of sub tasks, and sometimes sub-sub tasks, and then execute through all of those to come with a final answer … are really going to be in the domain of large models for a while,” said Vargas.

Based on ongoing conversations with customers, Vargas and Yadav expect to see some companies “offloading” some tasks to small models if the task is not too complex. 

For instance, a business could use Phi-3 to summarize the main points of a long document or extract relevant insights and industry trends from market research reports. Another organization might use Phi-3 to generate copy, helping create content for marketing or sales teams such as product descriptions or social media posts. Or, a company might use Phi-3 to power a support chatbot to answer customers’ basic questions about their plan, or service upgrades.    

Internally, Microsoft is already using suites of models, where large language models play the role of router, to direct certain queries that require less computing power to small language models, while tackling other more complex requests itself.

“The claim here is not that SLMs are going to substitute or replace large language models,” said Kamar. Instead, SLMs “are uniquely positioned for computation on the edge, computation on the device, computations where you don’t need to go to the cloud to get things done. That’s why it is important for us to understand the strengths and weaknesses of this model portfolio.”

And size carries important advantages. There’s still a gap between small language models and the level of intelligence that you can get from the big models on the cloud, said Bubeck. “And maybe there will always be a gap because you know – the big models are going to keep making progress.”

Related links:

• Read more: Introducing Phi-3, redefining what’s possible with SLMs
• Learn more: Azure AI
• Read more: Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

Top image: Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft vice president of Generative AI research who has led the company’s efforts to develop more capable small language models. (Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft)

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