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Morning Edition · Tuesday, August 18, 2026Published at 2:24 AM EDT · New York
Cohere Labs Ships a 2.4-Billion-Parameter Vision Model That Reads Images at Native Resolution
North Micro Vision pairs a 400-million-parameter SigLIP2-derived encoder with a 2-billion-parameter language model and is released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Cohere Labs released North Micro Vision Instruct, the smallest vision-language model in its lineup at 2.4 billion parameters, under the Apache 2.0 licence. The company's release writeup describes a 400-million-parameter vision encoder built…
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