Multimodal large language models have shown powerful abilities to understand and reason across text and images, but their ...

Family of tunable vision-language models based on Gemma 2 generate long captions for images that describe actions, emotions, and narratives of the scene. Google has introduced a new family of ...

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...

Deepseek VL-2 is a sophisticated vision-language model designed to address complex multimodal tasks with remarkable efficiency and precision. Built on a new mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, this ...

Since April, Xiaomi has released a series of open-source foundation models covering language, multimodal and voice capabilities. In November, it also unveiled Xiaomi Miloco, a smart home exploration ...

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 ...

Just when you thought the pace of change of AI models couldn’t get any faster, it accelerates yet again. In the popular news media, the introduction of DeepSeek in January 2025 created a moment that ...

Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support. Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. State and local organizations need to make sense of a vast amount ...