# Hugging Face — SigLIP 2: A better multilingual vision language encoder

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-02-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: google/siglip2-base-patch32-256, google/siglip2-base-patch32-256-jax, google/siglip2-base-patch16-224, google/siglip2-base-patch16-224-jax, google/siglip2-base-patch16-256, google/siglip2-base-patch16-256-jax, google/siglip2-base-patch16-384, google/siglip2-base-patch16-384-jax, google/siglip2-base-patch16-512, google/siglip2-base-patch16-512-jax, google/siglip2-base-patch16-naflex, google/siglip2-base-patch16-naflex-jax, google/siglip2-large-patch16-256, google/siglip2-large-patch16-256-jax, google/siglip2-large-patch16-384, google/siglip2-large-patch16-384-jax, google/siglip2-large-patch16-512, google/siglip2-large-patch16-512-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-224, google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-224-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384, google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-256, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-256-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-384, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-384-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-512, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-512-jax, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-naflex, google/siglip2-so400m-patch16-naflex-jax, google/siglip2-giant-opt-patch16-256, google/siglip2-giant-opt-patch16-256-jax, google/siglip2-giant-opt-patch16-384, google/siglip2-giant-opt-patch16-384-jax
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/siglip2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1742-siglip-2-a-better-multilingual-vision-language-encoder

Google releases SigLIP 2, a new family of multilingual vision-language encoders that improve upon SigLIP with additional training objectives including a decoder for localization, self-distillation with global-local loss and masked prediction, and dynamic resolution (naflex) variants. The models are available in various sizes (Base, Large, Shape Optimized 400M, Giant) and resolutions.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/siglip2:

> Today Google releases a new and better family of multilingual vision-language encoders, SigLIP 2.

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