Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far ...

Microsoft Builds A Compact AI Model That Decides When To Think

Microsoft's Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B uses careful data curation and selective reasoning to compete with models trained on ...
The Robot Report

Vision-language-action models are the next leap in autonomous robotics

Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously.
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 ...
Forbes

How Vision Language Models Will Shape The Future Of Self-Driving Cars

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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

Figure AI HELIX : Vision-Language-Action Model Making Humanoid Robots Smarter

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...

Model Show: Coding, OCR, and Chinese New Year

February brought new coding models, and vision-language models impress with OCR. Open Responses aims to establish itself as a ...
InfoQ

DeepMind Trains 80 Billion Parameter AI Vision-Language Model Flamingo

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...
The Verge

Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures

Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. Phi-3-vision, a 4.2 billion parameter model, can answer questions about images or charts. is a reporter who ...