# Hugging Face — SmolVLM2: Bringing Video Understanding to Every Device

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct, SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct, SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1743-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2:

> 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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