Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops

Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older two-billion parameter mod...