Multimodal 💬 - We have released SmolVLM -- tiniest VLMs that come in 256M and 500M, with it's retrieval models ColSmol for multimodal RAG 💗 - UI-TARS are new models by ByteDance to unlock agentic GUI control 🤯 in 2B, 7B and 72B - Alibaba DAMO lab released VideoLlama3, new video LMs that come in 2B and 7B - MiniMaxAI released Minimax-VL-01, where decoder is based on MiniMax-Text-01 456B MoE model with long context - Dataset: Yale released a new benchmark called MMVU - Dataset: CAIS released Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) a new challenging MM benchmark
LLMs 📖 - DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: gigantic 660B reasoning models by DeepSeek, and six distilled dense models, on par with o1 with MIT license! 🤯 - Qwen2.5-Math-PRM: new math models by Qwen in 7B and 72B - NVIDIA released AceMath and AceInstruct, new family of models and their datasets (SFT and reward ones too!)
Audio 🗣️ - Llasa is a new speech synthesis model based on Llama that comes in 1B,3B, and 8B - TangoFlux is a new audio generation model trained from scratch and aligned with CRPO
Image/Video/3D Generation ⏯️ - Flex.1-alpha is a new 8B pre-trained diffusion model by ostris similar to Flux - tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, new 3D asset generation from images
smolagents can see 🔥 we just shipped vision support to smolagents 🤗 agentic computers FTW
you can now: 💻 let the agent get images dynamically (e.g. agentic web browser) 📑 pass images at the init of the agent (e.g. chatting with documents, filling forms automatically etc) with few LoC change! 🤯 you can use transformers models locally (like Qwen2VL) OR plug-in your favorite multimodal inference provider (gpt-4o, antrophic & co) 🤠
👀 Multimodal - MiniCPM-o 2.6 is a new sota any-to-any model by OpenBMB (vision, speech and text!) - VideoChat-Flash-Qwen2.5-2B is new video multimodal models by OpenGVLab that come in sizes 2B & 7B in resolutions 224 & 448 - ByteDance released larger SA2VA that comes in 26B parameters - Dataset: VRC-Bench is a new diverse benchmark for multimodal LLM reasoning performance
💬 LLMs - MiniMax-Text-01 is a new huge language model (456B passive 45.9B active params) by MiniMaxAI with context length of 4M tokens 🤯 - Dataset: Sky-T1-data-17k is a diverse dataset used to train Sky-T1-32B - kyutai released Helium-1-Preview-2B is a new small multilingual LM - Wayfarer-12B is a new LLM able to write D&D 🧙🏻♂️ - ReaderLM-v2 is a new HTML parsing model by Jina AI - Dria released, Dria-Agent-a-3B, new agentic coding model (Pythonic function calling) based on Qwen2.5 Coder - Unsloth released Phi-4, faster and memory efficient Llama 3.3
🖼️ Vision - MatchAnything is a new foundation model for matching - FitDit is a high-fidelity VTON model based on DiT architecture
🗣️ Audio - OuteTTS-0.3-1B is a new multilingual text-to-speech model with voice cloning and emotion control capabilities
📖 Retrieval - lightblue released a new reranker based on Qwen2.5 LB-reranker-0.5B-v1.0 that can handle 95+ languages - cde-small-v2 is a new sota small retrieval model by @jxm
Multimodal 🖼️ > ByteDance released SA2VA: a family of vision LMs that can take image, video, text and visual prompts > moondream2 is out with new capabilities like outputting structured data and gaze detection! > Dataset: Alibaba DAMO lab released multimodal textbook — 22k hours worth of samples from instruction videos 🤯 > Dataset: SciCap captioning on scientific documents benchmark dataset is released along with the challenge!
LLMs 💬 > Microsoft released Phi-4, sota open-source 14B language model 🔥 > Dolphin is back with Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.1 8B 🐬🐬 > Prime-RL released Eurus-2-7B-PRIME a new language model trained using PRIME alignment > SmallThinker-3B is a new small reasoning LM based on Owen2.5-3B-Instruct 💭 > Dataset: QWQ-LONGCOT-500K is the dataset used to train SmallThinker, generated using QwQ-32B-preview 📕 > Dataset: @cfahlgren1 released React Code Instructions: a dataset of code instruction-code pairs 📕 > Dataset: Qwen team is on the roll, they just released CodeElo, a dataset of code preferences 👩🏻💻
Embeddings 🔖 > @MoritzLaurer released zero-shot version of ModernBERT large 👏 > KaLM is a new family of performant multilingual embedding models with MIT license built using Qwen2-0.5B
Image/Video Generation ⏯️ > NVIDIA released Cosmos, a new family of diffusion/autoregressive World Foundation Models generating worlds from images, videos and texts 🔥 > Adobe released TransPixar: a new text-to-video model that can generate assets with transparent backgrounds (a first!) > Dataset: fal released cosmos-openvid-1m Cosmos-tokenized OpenVid-1M with samples from OpenVid-1M
Others > Prior Labs released TabPFNv2, the best tabular transformer is out for classification and regression > Metagene-1 is a new RNA language model that can be used for pathogen detection, zero-shot embedding and genome understanding
> The models are capable of tasks involving vision-language understanding and visual referrals (referring segmentation) both for images and videos ⏯️
> The models come in 1B, 4B and 8B and are based on InternVL2.5 for base architecture and Qwen2, Qwen2.5 and InternLM2 for language model part (depending on the checkpoint)
> The model is very interesting, it has different encoders for different modalities each (visual prompt, text prompt, image and video) then it concatenates these to feed into LLM 💬
the output segmentation tokens are passed to SAM2, to sort of match text (captions or semantic classes) to masks ⤵️
> Their annotation pipeline is also interesting, they seems to use two open large vision LMs to refine the annotations, and have different levels of descriptions to provide consistency.
The paper has a lot of experiments (they trained 84 models!) about what makes the video LMs work ⏯️
Try the demo for best setup here https://huggingface.co/spaces/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-3B they evaluate sampling strategies, scaling laws for models and datasets, video representation and more! > The authors find out that whatever design decision was applied to small models also scale properly when the model and dataset are scaled 📈 scaling dataset has diminishing returns for smaller models > They evaluate frame sampling strategies, and find that FPS sampling is better than uniform sampling, and they find 8-32 tokens per frame optimal > They also compare image encoders, they try a variation of models from shape optimized SigLIP to DINOv2 they find google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384 to be most powerful 🔥 > they also compare freezing different parts of models, training all stages with some frozen parts give the best yield
They eventually release three models, where Apollo-3B outperforms most 7B models and Apollo 7B outperforms 30B models 🔥
Multimodal 🖼️ > Google shipped a PaliGemma 2, new iteration of PaliGemma with more sizes: 3B, 10B and 28B, with pre-trained and captioning variants 👏 > OpenGVLab released InternVL2, seven new vision LMs in different sizes, with sota checkpoint with MIT license ✨ > Qwen team at Alibaba released the base models of Qwen2VL models with 2B, 7B and 72B ckpts
LLMs 💬 > Meta released a new iteration of Llama 70B, Llama3.2-70B trained further > EuroLLM-9B-Instruct is a new multilingual LLM for European languages with Apache 2.0 license 🔥 > Dataset: CohereForAI released GlobalMMLU, multilingual version of MMLU with 42 languages with Apache 2.0 license > Dataset: QwQ-LongCoT-130K is a new dataset to train reasoning models > Dataset: FineWeb2 just landed with multilinguality update! 🔥 nearly 8TB pretraining data in many languages!
Image/Video Generation 🖼️ > Tencent released HunyuanVideo, a new photorealistic video generation model > OminiControl is a new editing/control framework for image generation models like Flux
Audio 🔊 > Indic-Parler-TTS is a new text2speech model made by community