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Microsoft's new in-house coding model matters less as a benchmark headline and more as a signal that Copilot is becoming a routing layer for cost, latency, ownership, and review quality.

Modern browser automation from Microsoft. Auto-wait, role-based selectors, cross-browser, fast in CI.

Microsoft's PHI-4 is an MIT-licensed 14 billion parameter model that matches Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 2.5 72B on key benchmarks. Here is what makes it special, how to run it locally, and why small language models are increasingly practical for real development work.