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What is Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning?

The Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning model, boasting 3.8 billion parameters, is a key part of Microsoft's Phi series, tailored for environments with limited processing capabilities such as edge and mobile platforms. Its state-of-the-art SambaY hybrid decoder architecture combines Gated Memory Units (GMUs) with Mamba state-space and sliding-window attention layers, resulting in performance improvements that are up to ten times faster and decreasing latency by two to three times compared to previous iterations, while still excelling in complex reasoning tasks. Designed to support a context length of 64K tokens and fine-tuned on high-quality synthetic datasets, this model is particularly effective for long-context retrieval and real-time inference, making it efficient enough to run on a single GPU. Accessible via platforms like Azure AI Foundry, NVIDIA API Catalog, and Hugging Face, Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning presents developers with the tools to build applications that are both rapid and highly scalable, capable of performing intensive logical processing. This extensive availability encourages a diverse group of developers to utilize its advanced features, paving the way for creative and innovative application development in various fields.

What is Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is an efficient multimodal AI model built to deliver strong reasoning and coding performance at a fraction of Inkling’s size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems and is designed to combine high capability with more efficient inference. Inkling-Small supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, allowing it to work across multimodal tasks without relying on separate encoders. Its context window supports up to one million tokens, making it useful for long-form reasoning, large-scale code understanding, document analysis, and agentic workflows. Users can adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high depending on whether they need faster responses or deeper computation. The model’s training process includes improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning. These techniques helped Inkling-Small outperform its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses and exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified. Its encoder-free architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens. By combining efficient MoE design, one-million-token context, adjustable reasoning effort, multimodal processing, coding strength, and tool-use performance, Inkling-Small is designed for developers and teams that need capable AI with lower active compute requirements.

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Integrations Supported

Hugging Face
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
NVIDIA DRIVE

Integrations Supported

Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

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Pricing Information

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens

Supported Platforms

SaaS

Supported Platforms

SaaS

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Company Facts

Organization Name

Microsoft

Date Founded

1975

Company Location

United States

Company Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/reasoning-reimagined-introducing-phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Date Founded

2025

Company Location

United States

Company Website

thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

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