As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels, closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude are currently setting the pace, ...

Vision language models (VLMs) have made impressive strides over the past year, but can they handle real-world enterprise challenges? All signs point to yes, with one caveat: They still need maturing ...

The field of optical image processing is undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs). A new review article published in iOptics details how these ...

Recent advances in large-scale AI models, including large language and vision-language-action models, have significantly expanded the capabilities of ...

The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use.

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...