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Description

On June 23, 2025, Microsoft unveiled Mu, an innovative 330-million-parameter encoder–decoder language model specifically crafted to enhance the agent experience within Windows environments by effectively translating natural language inquiries into function calls for Settings, all processed on-device via NPUs at a remarkable speed of over 100 tokens per second while ensuring impressive accuracy. By leveraging Phi Silica optimizations, Mu’s encoder–decoder design employs a fixed-length latent representation that significantly reduces both computational demands and memory usage, achieving a 47 percent reduction in first-token latency and a decoding speed that is 4.7 times greater on Qualcomm Hexagon NPUs when compared to other decoder-only models. Additionally, the model benefits from hardware-aware tuning techniques, which include a thoughtful 2/3–1/3 split of encoder and decoder parameters, shared weights for input and output embeddings, Dual LayerNorm, rotary positional embeddings, and grouped-query attention, allowing for swift inference rates exceeding 200 tokens per second on devices such as the Surface Laptop 7, along with sub-500 ms response times for settings-related queries. This combination of features positions Mu as a groundbreaking advancement in on-device language processing capabilities.

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SmolVLM-Instruct is a streamlined, AI-driven multimodal model that integrates vision and language processing capabilities, enabling it to perform functions such as image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal storytelling. This model can process both text and image inputs efficiently, making it particularly suitable for smaller or resource-limited environments. Utilizing SmolLM2 as its text decoder alongside SigLIP as its image encoder, it enhances performance for tasks that necessitate the fusion of textual and visual data. Additionally, SmolVLM-Instruct can be fine-tuned for various specific applications, providing businesses and developers with a flexible tool that supports the creation of intelligent, interactive systems that leverage multimodal inputs. As a result, it opens up new possibilities for innovative application development across different industries.

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Company Name

Microsoft

Founded

1975

Country

United States

Website

blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/06/23/introducing-mu-language-model-and-how-it-enabled-the-agent-in-windows-settings/

Vendor Details

Company Name

Hugging Face

Founded

2016

Country

United States

Website

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct

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