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 ...

Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA that can run on low-cost hardware thanks to its small size, the company says.

The development has already caught the attention of major technology players. IBM has partnered with Hugging Face to integrate the 256M model into Docling, their document processing software.

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. AI dev platform Hugging Face released earlier this week an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on ...