# Hugging Face — SmolVLM Grows Smaller – Introducing the 256M & 500M Models!

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: SmolVLM-256M, SmolVLM-500M
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/smolervlm
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1765-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.

## Evidence

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

> We’re excited to announce two new additions to the SmolVLM family: SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M.

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