Hugging Face shrinks AI vision models to phone-friendly size, slashing computing costs

Hugging Face shrinks AI vision models to phone-friendly size, slashing computing costs

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Hugging Face has achieved a remarkable breakthrough in AI, introducing vision-language models that run on devices as small as smartphones while outperforming their predecessors that require massive data centers.

The company’s new SmolVLM-256M model, requiring less than one gigabyte of GPU memory, surpasses the performance of their Idefics 80B model…


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