Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

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 ...

Deepseek VL-2 is a sophisticated vision-language model designed to address complex multimodal tasks with remarkable efficiency and precision. Built on a new mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, this ...

Imagine pointing your phone's camera at the world, asking it to identify the dark green plant leaves, and asking if it's poisonous for dogs. Likewise, you're working on a computer, pull up the AI, and ...

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 ...

What if a robot could not only see and understand the world around it but also respond to your commands with the precision and adaptability of a human? Imagine instructing a humanoid robot to “set the ...

Just when you thought the pace of change of AI models couldn’t get any faster, it accelerates yet again. In the popular news media, the introduction of DeepSeek in January 2025 created a moment that ...

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.

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 ...

Cohere For AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing ...