As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

Vision language models (VLMs) have made impressive strides over the past year, but can they handle real-world enterprise challenges? All signs point to yes, with one caveat: They still need maturing ...

The field of robotics is undergoing a profound transformation driven by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, particularly large language models and ...

H2O.ai, a provider of open-source AI platforms, announced today two new vision-language models designed to improve document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. The models, named ...

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels, closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude are currently setting the pace, ...

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.

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 ...