Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...

As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal AI model unifying vision, audio & language for faster agents.

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.

Liquid AI’s LFM 2.5 sets a new standard for vision-language models by prioritizing local processing and resource efficiency. As highlighted by Better Stack, this model operates entirely on everyday ...

Ambient.ai has introduced Pulsar, a new vision-language model that brings agentic monitoring, investigation, and real-time decision support to enterprise physical security. Ambient.ai’s Pulsar model ...

After announcing Gemma 2 at I/O 2024 in May, Google today is introducing PaliGemma 2 as its latest open vision-language model (VLM). The first version of PaliGemma launched in May for use cases like ...

IBM has recently released the Granite 3.2 series of open-source AI models, enhancing inference capabilities and introducing its first vision-language model (VLM) while continuing advancements in ...