# Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models - Microsoft Research

<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surprising-power-of-small-language-models/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Worth keeping an eye on these smaller LLMs, particularly for programmatic use cases.

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