Model comparison

Molmo 2 8b vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Molmo 2 8b scores higher in 4 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Molmo 2 8b leads 49.4 to 27.6.

Side by side

Molmo 2 8b and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Molmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Microsoft
Noometry Index39.127.9
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked535

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
LMArena Coding—1093
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Molmo 2 8b leads

Molmo 2 8b: 25.6 (#146), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12871072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Math—15.7%
LMArena Math—1111

Knowledge Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert—1045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: 30.2 (#112), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1081—

Multilingual Molmo 2 8b leads

Molmo 2 8b: 42.7 (#190), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12761021
LMArena Chinese—1021
LMArena French—1076
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Russian—1022
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Molmo 2 8b leads

Molmo 2 8b: 67.0 (#201), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12701053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Not comparable

Molmo 2 8b: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1044

Writing & Preference Molmo 2 8b leads

Molmo 2 8b: 49.4 (#191), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMolmo 2 8bPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12881073
LMArena Creative Writing—1037
LMArena Multi-Turn—1018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Molmo 2 8b better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Molmo 2 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.1 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Molmo 2 8b and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Molmo 2 8b has 5 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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