# Hugging Face — Get your VLM running in 3 simple steps on Intel CPUs

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-10-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: SmolVLM, SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/openvino-vlm
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1605-get-your-vlm-running-in-3-simple-steps-on-intel-cpus

Hugging Face published a tutorial showing how to run a Vision Language Model (VLM) on Intel CPUs using Optimum Intel and OpenVINO, with three steps: model conversion, quantization, and inference. The tutorial uses SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct as the example model.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/openvino-vlm:

> Run a VLM on Intel CPUs without expensive hardware or GPUs.

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