Model
Inference & Serving
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1Microsoft's 2small 3but 4capable 5open 6models.
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Released by Microsoft.
W2
What
Small language and multimodal models trained on curated data.
W3
Where
Weights run locally or via providers.
W4
When
When quality must fit tiny footprints.
W5
Why
Punches far above its parameter count.
W6
With
A model runtime such as Ollama or Transformers.
W7
Watch
MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face; run them anywhere, no credentials.
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