Apple releases LensVLM-9B, compressing long context as images and expanding only relevant pages
victormustar · hn · 2026-09-24
Apple has released LensVLM-9B on Hugging Face, a new approach to long-context processing: documents are compressed into image form, and only the relevant pages get expanded when needed. Model weights are available on Hugging Face.
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