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 ...

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 ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

Canadian AI startup Cohere launched in 2019 specifically targeting the enterprise, but independent research has shown it has so far struggled to gain much of a market share among third-party ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what’s in them. Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — ...

Imagine a world where your devices not only see but truly understand what they’re looking at—whether it’s reading a document, tracking where someone’s gaze lands, or answering questions about a video.

In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.