SmolVLM Grows Smaller – Introducing the 256M & 500M Models!

Hugging Face announces two new small vision-language models: SmolVLM-256M (256M parameters) and SmolVLM-500M (500M parameters), which are the smallest VLMs in the world, with improved efficiency and performance.

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We’re excited to announce two new additions to the SmolVLM family: SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M.
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Announced: 23 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+557d after)

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