Hugging Face Introduces IDEFICS: Pioneering Open Multimodal Conversational AI with Visual Language Models

The research team at Hugging Face has developed IDEFICS, a multimodal language model that rivals closed proprietary models in capabilities and promotes openness and collaboration in the field of AI by relying solely on publicly available data. It can seamlessly process sequences of images and text to generate coherent conversational outputs, making it a significant advancement in open research and innovation.

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