FastChat vs. Phi

Overview

FastChat is the open platform for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chatbots developed and maintained by LMSYS.

FastChat is an open-source library for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chat systems from LMSYS. It includes training and evaluation code, a model serving system, a Web GUI, and a finetuning pipeline, and is the de facto system for Vicuna as well as FastChat-T5. FastChat also includes the Chatbot Arena for benchmarking LLMs.

Initial release: 2023-04-28

Reference

https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat

Further Reading

• https://chat.lmsys.org/
• https://lmsys.org/projects/

Overview

Phi is Microsoft's family of compact open models designed for efficient local and edge deployment. Phi-4 is the current generation.

Microsoft introduced Phi-1 and Phi-2 to demonstrate how carefully curated and synthetic training data can make small models unusually capable. Phi-3 expanded the family for mobile and multimodal use. The Phi-4 generation includes a 14B general model and reasoning variants, plus smaller and multimodal checkpoints. Phi models are released under the MIT license and are designed for research, local inference, and resource-constrained production workloads.

Initial release: 2023-06-20

Current generation: Phi-4

Reference

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/phi

Further Reading

• https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
• https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4