Tag: vlm

  • Apple’s LensVLM-9B Reads Compressed Pages, Then Zooms In

    Apple’s LensVLM-9B Reads Compressed Pages, Then Zooms In

    Apple has published the weights for LensVLM-9B, a vision-language model that reads long documents as heavily compressed images and zooms back in only on the pages it needs. The checkpoint went up on Hugging Face on September 21, 2026, alongside inference and evaluation code on GitHub. The paper behind it — a collaboration between Apple […]

  • LG AI Research Unveils EXAONE 4.5: A Vision-Language Model for the Physical AI Era

    LG AI Research Unveils EXAONE 4.5: A Vision-Language Model for the Physical AI Era

    At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, LG AI Research announced EXAONE 4.5 — the next generation of its open-weight AI model series. Unlike its predecessors, EXAONE 4.5 is a vision-language model (VLM) that can process both text and images simultaneously, marking LG’s biggest step yet into multimodal AI. The model is expected to launch […]

  • Hugging Face Unveils FineVision: A Breakthrough in Vision-Language Model Datasets

    Key points Hugging Face has open-sourced FineVision, a comprehensive dataset designed for Vision-Language Models that the article describes as the largest curation of its kind, drawing from over 200 sources. FineVision demonstrates a 20% improvement across 10 benchmark tests, which the article presents as evidence of its effectiveness in enhancing model capabilities. The dataset includes […]