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Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind

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Hugging Face has released SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, small AI models for analyzing images, videos, and text on devices with limited RAM. These 256 million and 500 million parameter models can describe visuals, answer questions about documents, and outperform larger models on some benchmarks, potentially enabling cheaper large-scale data processing.

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