# Hugging Face — Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Idefics2
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1909-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2:

> 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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