Semiconductor Engineering

Vision-Language-Action Models Arrive

The AI model type capturing the most attention across robotics and autonomous vehicles right now is the vision-language-action model, or VLA. At embedded AI conferences this year, particularly the ...
SiliconANGLE

Hugging Face open-sources world’s smallest vision language model

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 ...
VentureBeat

Cohere's first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there's a catch

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 ...
Nature

Adapting vision–language AI models to cardiology tasks

Vision–language models can be trained to read cardiac ultrasound images with implications for improving clinical workflows, but additional development and validation will be required before such ...
Nature

Understanding the robustness of vision-language models to medical image artefacts

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for answering clinically relevant questions, but their robustness to medical image artefacts remains unclear. We evaluated VLMs’ robustness through their ...
Geeky Gadgets

Locally run AI vision with Moondream tiny vision language model

If you would like the ability to run AI vision applications on your home computer you might be interested in a new language model called Moondream. Capable of processing what you say, what you write, ...