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Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community

Hugging Face releases Idefics2, an 8B parameter vision-language model with Apache 2.0 license, improved OCR, and competitive performance on multimodal benchmarks.

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Idefics2 improves upon Idefics1: with 8B parameters, an open license (Apache 2.0), and enhanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) capabilities, Idefics2 is a strong foundation for the community working on multimodality.

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