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AI · March 9, 2026

Phi-4-reasoning-vision

Open-weight 15B multimodal model for thinking and GUI agents

Phi-4-reasoning-vision launched on March 9, 2026 with 124 votes, #324 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a compact open-weight multimodal model built on a mid-fusion architecture. Balancing fast direct perception with deep chain-of-thought, building capable computer-use agents and solving complex math is now highly efficient.

Vision-language models improve multimodal systems, but can make them slower, costlier, and harder to deploy. Learn how Phi-4-Vision-Reasoning, a compact multimodal reasoning model, blends strengths of different methods while reducing their limits:

We are pleased to announce Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B , a 15 billion parameter open‑weight multimodal reasoning model, available through Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab) , HuggingFace (opens in new tab) and GitHub (opens in new tab) . Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B is a broadly capable model that can be used for a wide array of vision-language tasks such as image captioning, asking questions about images, reading documents and receipts, helping with homework, inferring about changes in sequences of images, and much more. Beyond these general capabilities, it excels at math and science reasoning and at understanding and grounding elements on computer and mobile screens. In particular, our…from microsoft.com

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