vision LMs are saturated over benchmarks, so we built vibe eval 💬
> compare different models with refreshed in-the-wild examples in different categories 🤠 > submit your favorite model for eval no numbers -- just vibes!
emerging trend: models that can understand image + text and generate image + text
don't miss out ⤵️ > MMaDA: single 8B diffusion model aligned with CoT (reasoning!) + UniGRPO Gen-Verse/MMaDA > BAGEL: 7B MoT model based on Qwen2.5, SigLIP-so-400M, Flux VAE ByteDance-Seed/BAGEL both by ByteDance! 😱
multimodal 💬🖼️ > new moondream (VLM) is out: it's 4-bit quantized (with QAT) version of moondream-2b, runs on 2.5GB VRAM at 184 tps with only 0.6% drop in accuracy (OS) 🌚 > ByteDance released BAGEL-7B, an omni model that understands and generates both image + text. they also released Dolphin, a document parsing VLM 🐬 (OS) > Google DeepMind dropped MedGemma in I/O, VLM that can interpret medical scans, and Gemma 3n, an omni model with competitive LLM performance
> MMaDa is a new 8B diffusion language model that can generate image and text
LLMs > Mistral released Devstral, a 24B coding assistant (OS) 👩🏻💻 > Fairy R1-32B is a new reasoning model -- distilled version of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (OS) > NVIDIA released ACEReason-Nemotron-14B, new 14B math and code reasoning model > sarvam-m is a new Indic LM with hybrid thinking mode, based on Mistral Small (OS) > samhitika-0.0.1 is a new Sanskrit corpus (BookCorpus translated with Gemma3-27B)
image generation 🎨 > MTVCrafter is a new human motion animation generator
> first reasoning model for robotics > based on Qwen 2.5-VL-7B, use with Hugging Face transformers or vLLM 🤗 > comes with SFT & alignment datasets and a new benchmark 👏
LLMs 💬 > Alibaba Qwen released WorldPM-72B, new World Preference Model trained with 15M preference samples (OS) > II-Medical-8B, new LLM for medical reasoning that comes in 8B by Intelligent-Internet > TRAIL is a new dataset by Patronus for trace error reasoning for agents (OS)
Multimodal 🖼️💬 > Salesforce Research released BLIP3o, a new any-to-any model with image-text input and image-text output 💬it’s based on an image encoder, a text decoder and a DiT, and comes in 8B > They also released pre-training and fine-tuning datasets > MMMG is a multimodal generation benchmark for image, audio, text (interleaved)
Image Generation ⏯️ > Alibaba Wan-AI released Wan2.1-VACE, video foundation model for image and text to video, video-to-audio and more tasks, comes in 1.3B and 14B (OS) > ZuluVision released MoviiGen1.1, new cinematic video generation model based on Wan 2.1 14B (OS) > multimodalart released isometric-skeumorphic-3d-bnb, an isometric 3D asset generator (like AirBnB assets) based on Flux > LTX-Video-0.9.7-distilled is a new real-time video generation (text and image to video) model by Lightricks > Hidream_t2i_human_preference is a new text-to-image preference dataset by Rapidata with 195k human responses from 38k annotators
Audio 🗣️ > stabilityai released stable-audio-open-small new text-to-audio model > TEN-framework released ten-vad, voice activity detection model (OS)
We just shipped a blog on everything latest on vision language models, including 🤖 GUI agents, agentic VLMs, omni models 📑 multimodal RAG ⏯️ video LMs 🤏🏻 smol models ..and more! https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms-2025
💬 Qwen made it rain! They released Qwen3: new dense and MoE models ranging from 0.6B to 235B 🤯 as well as Qwen2.5-Omni, any-to-any model in 3B and 7B! > Microsoft AI released Phi4 reasoning models (that also come in mini and plus sizes) > NVIDIA released new CoT reasoning datasets 🖼️ > ByteDance released UI-TARS-1.5, native multimodal UI parsing agentic model > Meta released EdgeTAM, an on-device object tracking model (SAM2 variant) 🗣️ NVIDIA released parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, a smol 600M automatic speech recognition model > Nari released Dia, a 1.6B text-to-speech model > Moonshot AI released Kimi Audio, a new audio understanding, generation, conversation model 👩🏻💻 JetBrains released Melium models in base and SFT for coding > Tesslate released UIGEN-T2-7B, a new text-to-frontend-code model 🤩
you can easily fine-tune, quantize, play with sota vision LM InternVL3 now 🔥 we have recently merged InternVL3 to Hugging Face transformers and released converted checkpoints 🤗
Meta released Llama Guard 4 and new Prompt Guard 2 models 🔥
Llama Guard 4 is a new model to filter model inputs/outputs both text-only and image 🛡️ use it before and after LLMs/VLMs! meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B
Meta dropped swiss army knives for vision with A2.0 license 👏 > image/video encoders for vision language modelling and spatial understanding (object detection etc) 👏 > The vision LM outperforms InternVL3 and Qwen2.5VL 👏 > They also release gigantic video and image datasets
The authors attempt to come up with single versatile vision encoder to align on diverse set of tasks.
They trained Perception Encoder (PE) Core: a new state-of-the-art family of vision encoders that can be aligned for both vision-language and spatial tasks. For zero-shot image tasks, it outperforms latest sota SigLIP2 👏
> Among fine-tuned ones, first one is PE-Spatial. It's a model to detect bounding boxes, segmentation, depth estimation and it outperforms all other models 😮
> Second one is PLM, Perception Language Model, where they combine PE-Core with Qwen2.5 LM 7B. it outperforms all other models (including InternVL3 which was trained with Qwen2.5LM too!)
The authors release the following checkpoints in sizes base, large and giant:
Authors release following datasets 📑 > PE Video: Gigantic video datasete of 1M videos with 120k expert annotations ⏯️ > PLM-Video and PLM-Image: Human and auto-annotated image and video datasets on region-based tasks > PLM-VideoBench: New video benchmark on MCQA
Most of the vision LMs focus on image as a whole, lacking localized references in captions, and not taking in visual prompts (points, boxes, drawings around objects)
DAM addresses this on two levels: new vision backbone that takes in focal crops and the image itself, and a large scale dataset 👀
They generate a dataset by extending existing segmentation and referring expression generation datasets like REFCOCO, by passing in the images and classes to VLMs and generating captions.
Lastly, they also release a new benchmark again with self-supervision, they use an LLM to evaluate the detailed captions focusing on localization 👏
multimodal > Moonshot AI released Kimi VL Thinking, first working open-source multimodal reasoning model and Kimi VL Instruct, both 16B MoEs with 3B active params (OS) > InternVL3 released based on Qwen2.5VL, 7 ckpts with various sizes (1B to 78B)
LLMs > NVIDIA released Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 an LLM built on Llama 405B for reasoning, chat and tool use > Agentica released DeepCoder-14B-Preview, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B on problem-test pairs, along with the compiled dataset > Zyphra/ZR1-1.5B is a new small reasoning LLM built on R1-Distill-1.5B (OS) > Skywork-OR1-32B-Preview is a new reasoning model by Skywork
Image Generation > HiDream releases three new models, HiDream I1 Dev, I1 Full, and I1 fast for image generation (OS)
👀 Multimodal > Mistral AI released a 24B vision LM, both base and instruction FT versions, sota 🔥 (OS) > with IBM we released SmolDocling, a sota 256M document parser with Apache 2.0 license (OS) > SpatialLM is a new vision LM that outputs 3D bounding boxes, comes with 0.5B (QwenVL based) and 1B (Llama based) variants > SkyWork released SkyWork-R1V-38B, new vision reasoning model (OS)
💬 LLMs > NVIDIA released new Nemotron models in 49B and 8B with their post-training dataset > LG released EXAONE, new reasoning models in 2.4B, 7.8B and 32B > Dataset: Glaive AI released a new reasoning dataset of 22M+ examples > Dataset: NVIDIA released new helpfulness dataset HelpSteer3 > Dataset: OpenManusRL is a new agent dataset based on ReAct framework (OS) > Open-R1 team released OlympicCoder, new competitive coder model in 7B and 32B > Dataset: GeneralThought-430K is a new reasoning dataset (OS)
🖼️ Image Generation/Computer Vision > Roboflow released RF-DETR, new real-time sota object detector (OS) 🔥 > YOLOE is a new real-time zero-shot object detector with text and visual prompts 🥹 > Stability AI released Stable Virtual Camera, a new novel view synthesis model > Tencent released Hunyuan3D-2mini, new small and fast 3D asset generation model > ByteDance released InfiniteYou, new realistic photo generation model > StarVector is a new 8B model that generates svg from images > FlexWorld is a new model that expands 3D views (OS)
🎤 Audio > Sesame released CSM-1B new speech generation model (OS)
🤖 Robotics > NVIDIA released GR00T, new robotics model for generalized reasoning and skills, along with the dataset
An implementation of T5 in PyTorch with UL2 objective optimized for GPGPU for both training and inference thanks to 13 different optimizations. The main one is that we have designed a CUDA kernel to expand the Flash Attention by @tridao with RPE biases and supports other PE such as RoPE, ALiBi or FIRE. The result kernel is 2 times faster than a SPDA implementation. We also use Triton kernels to optimize certain parts of the architecture, such as the cross-entropy and RMSNorm layer.
The various kernels have been carefully built to be compatible with BF16 and torch.compile to go even faster and achieve efficient pretraining.
This methodology enabled us to efficiently pretrain as a proof of concept a FAT5 with 147M parameters in French in a reasonable time (1,461H for 419B tokens), with limited resources (1 A100 i.e. a computational budget of ~ €1,900) and a low carbon footprint (13.5kg eq CO2).
The model's weights are also available on Hugging Face: CATIE-AQ/FAT5-small. Not very useful in practice, it's a PoC and not an instructed model (it's planned for later).
All the code is available on GitHub if you want to pretrain your own model in your own language or for a specific domain: https://github.com/catie-aq/flashT5 ⭐
Ending by indicating that was a joint project with @BorisAlbar at hf.co/CATIE-AQ.
