Cohere Releases North Micro Vision, a 2.4B Open-Source Vision-Language Model
cohere · x · 2026-08-13
Cohere has introduced North Micro Vision, its smallest vision-language model to date at 2.4B parameters.
- Capabilities: Features native-resolution visual processing, multi-turn image/text conversations, spatial reasoning, visual grounding, and multilingual image understanding, with a strong focus on sophisticated document understanding.
- Performance: Outperforms Gemma 4 E2B and Ministral 3 3B across a broad range of visual understanding benchmarks.
- Availability: Open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, with weights available on Hugging Face.
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