How an 8B Open Model Sets New Standards for Safe and Efficient Vision-Language AI

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

The Small AI Model Making Big Waves in Vision-Language Intelligence

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

The Artistry Behind Efficient AI Conversations

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

Why The Right AI Backbones Trump Raw Size Every Time

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 Are all pre-trained backbones equivalent for VLMs? 3.2 How does the fully autoregressive architecture compare to the cross-attention architecture? 3.3 Where are the efficiency gains? 3.4 How can one trade compute for performance? 4 Idefics2 – … Read more

Can Smaller AI Outperform the Giants?

:::info Authors: (1) Hugo Laurençon, Hugging Face and Sorbonne Université, (the order was chosen randomly); (2) Léo Tronchon, Hugging Face (the order was chosen randomly); (3) Matthieu Cord, Sorbonne Université; (4) Victor Sanh, Hugging Face. ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Terminology 3 Exploring the design space of vision-language models and 3.1 … Read more

Tanks, guns and face-painting

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took … Read more

Groundbreaking MIT Research Indicates That AI Can in Fact Teach Other AI Models

What’s the biggest difference between an AI model and a human brain? Over time, myriad answers have been given—the brain is more energy-efficient, more multifaceted in its media of input, and also chemically enabled in addition to being electrical—yet the human brain’s most important feature is its amazing plasticity. If a patient’s body part (like … Read more

No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

Demonstrators in Los Angeles marched alongside an inflatable Donald Trump baby dressed in a diaper. As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what’s estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond – protesting Trump and Elon Musk’s evisceration of government services, an … Read more