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Is AI Poised To Become A Top Carbon Culprit?

Microsoft’s new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Phi-2, is a small language model capable of running on devices. The company said it can outperform other language models from companies such as Meta and Google. But not without a consequential tradeoff: its potential carbon footprint.

Phi-2 is a 2.7 billion-parameter language model …

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