multimodal models

Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal open model

Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The open-weight model turns text, code, images, video and audio into a shared 768-dimensional embedding space, and it is small enough to run on phones and laptops. The model has 740…

Chinese AI models close gap with US rivals, reshaping global race

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team released QVQ-72B-Preview, an experimental open-weight model that combines visual understanding with chain-of-thought reasoning, marking an early entry in what has since become a crowded field of multimodal AI systems.

DeepSeek launches vision model it says rivals Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday that it claims approaches the performance of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks, extending the company's push into visual AI at a fraction of the cost charged by…