SmolVLM2: Bringing Video Understanding to Every Device

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2, a family of small video understanding models in three sizes (2.2B, 500M, and 256M parameters), with MLX support and demos including an iPhone app and VLC integration.

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We are releasing models in three sizes (2.2B, 500M and 256M), MLX ready (Python and Swift APIs) from day zero.
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Announced: 20 Feb 2025 00:00 UTC
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