Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro vs Phi-3.5-MoE Instruct

ByteDance

Doubao 1.5 Vision Pro, released by ByteDance via Volcano Engine on January 22, 2025, is a multimodal large language model from the Doubao 1.5 family with comprehensive upgrades to visual reasoning, OCR, and fine-grained image understanding. Built on a large-scale sparse MoE architecture, it targets vision-intensive workflows including document analysis, chart interpretation, and visual question answering.

Phi-3.5-MoE Instruct

Microsoft

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from Microsoft's Phi research team, released in August 2024 with 42 billion total parameters across 16 experts and approximately 6.6 billion active parameters per forward pass. The model applies Microsoft's small-data, high-quality training philosophy — developed across earlier Phi generations — to a MoE architecture, targeting reasoning quality comparable to much larger dense models at a fraction of the inference compute. Released under the MIT license, it was notable in the research community for demonstrating that MoE efficiency gains could be realized at smaller total parameter counts than typical large-scale MoE deployments.