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

DevFeed: [Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-idefics2-a-powerful-8b-vision-language-model-for-the-community-7272.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/idefics2>)

Author: Leo Tronchon; Hugo Laurençon; Victor Sanh

Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [smolvlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/smolvlm.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [foundation-models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/foundation-models.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [Transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformers.md>), [Computer vision](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-vision.md>)

Tags: [computer-vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-vision.md>), [cv](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cv.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fine-tuning.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [nlp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nlp.md>), [ocr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ocr.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>)

## AI overview

Idefics2 is an 8B open multimodal vision-language model that accepts text and images and generates text responses. It supports image question answering, visual description, multi-image storytelling, document information extraction, and basic arithmetic, with enhanced OCR and integration with Transformers for fine-tuning.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.