Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 23-01-2025

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM — A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text.