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AI · March 3, 2025

SmolVLM2

Smallest Video LM Ever from HuggingFace

SmolVLM2 launched on March 3, 2025 with 206 votes, #186 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

SmolVLM2, from HuggingFace, is a series of tiny, open-source multimodal model for video understanding. Processes video, images, and text. Ideal for on-device applications.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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