# PaliGemma - Google's Cutting-Edge Open Vision Language Model

DevFeed: [PaliGemma - Google's Cutting-Edge Open Vision Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/paligemma-google-s-cutting-edge-open-vision-language-model-7435.md>)

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

Author: merve; Andreas P. Steiner; Pedro Cuenca

Published: 2024-05-14T00:00:00Z

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>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformers.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Human-AI evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-ai-evaluation.md>), [smolvlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/smolvlm.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [ocr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ocr.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>)

## AI overview

PaliGemma is a family of open vision-language models from Google that accepts images and text and produces text. The article describes its SigLIP image encoder, Gemma text decoder, model variants, resolutions, precisions, Transformers integration, and use for tasks such as captioning, referring segmentation, and OCR.

## Source excerpt

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