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Developers and researchers in search of a solution for integrating advanced image understanding into applications across diverse devices
About Moondream
Moondream is an open source vision language model designed for efficient image understanding across various devices, including servers, PCs, mobile phones, and edge devices. It offers two primary variants, Moondream 2B, a 1.9-billion-parameter model providing robust performance for general-purpose tasks, and Moondream 0.5B, a compact 500-million-parameter model optimized for resource-constrained hardware. Both models support quantization formats like fp16, int8, and int4, allowing for reduced memory usage without significant performance loss. Moondream's capabilities include generating detailed image captions, answering visual queries, performing object detection, and pinpointing specific items within images. Its design emphasizes versatility and accessibility, enabling deployment across a wide range of platforms.
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Moondream
Founded: 2024
United States
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