7 results for “multimodal model”
SenseTime fully open-sourced SenseNova U1, a native unified multimodal model that fuses vision and language without a vision encoder or VAE. The 8B-parameter release matches commercial models on infographic generation and adds native 4K output in its U1.5 update.
DeepSeek open-sourced its experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp multimodal model on Hugging Face under MIT license on August 31, 2026. The release gives developers local access to the 305B-parameter vision-language model that previously ran only on DeepSeek's API platform.
SenseTime has released the preview version of SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, a lightweight unified multimodal model that packs 8 billion. The release arrives at an inflection point where the multimodal model competition is shifting from raw.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026, adding real-time visual grounding and background tool execution to voice agents across the Gemini API and Workspace.
Shanghai AI Lab open-sourced Intern-S2 with a plug-and-play Memory Decoder for science tasks. Weights are on Hugging Face; closed-model parity claims stay lab-reported only.
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal model with only 18B active parameters using hybrid sparse-linear attention. The MIT-licensed model approaches Claude Opus 4.8 on coding benchmarks at one-tenth the inference cost of its predecessor.
Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses have moved from niche gadget to mainstream consumer product faster than almost any wearable in recent memory. The privacy implications cascade across three layers: individual bystanders, institutional policy.