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Microsoft Releases Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B, a 15B-Parameter Model With Controllable Visual Reasoning

Developers can toggle thinking modes to balance latency with multi-step reasoning depth.

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White line icons against a blue-green gradient background form an architecture flow chart. In the middle of the chart is a three-by-three matrix of circles and lines within a round-edge square. Above the matrix, three icons in a row – an equation, a person using a desktop, and a head with gears flow by dotted lines to the matrix. To the left of the matrix is an icon representing a stack of files with an arrow pointing to the matrix. To the right of the matrix is a graph with a double headed arrow pointing to the matrix and to itself. Below the matrix is an icon representing a document. A dotted line arrow connects this graph to the matrix, showing the direction flowing from the matrix to the document. To the right of the document icon is an hourglass icon and three list icons with a dotted line connecting the hourglass to the lists.
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Overview

  • Microsoft made the model available today on Microsoft Foundry and Hugging Face, alongside sample notebooks, inference code, a technical paper, and a model card.
  • It fuses high-resolution visual perception with selective, task-aware reasoning to interpret images, diagrams, documents, and UI screens.
  • Highlighted applications include computer-use agents for GUI automation, diagram-based math and scientific reasoning, and document, chart, and table understanding.
  • Reasoning behavior can be set to hybrid, think, or nothink via prompt tokens, letting teams trade speed for deeper analysis in real time.
  • Microsoft published internal benchmark comparisons across multimodal, math, OCR, and computer-use tasks and outlined safety training signals and deployment guidance aligned to its Responsible AI principles.