# We now support VLMs in smolagents!

DevFeed: [We now support VLMs in smolagents!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-now-support-vlms-in-smolagents-7478.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents-can-see>)

Author: Aymeric Roucher; merve; Albert Villanova del Moral

Published: 2025-01-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [smolagents](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/smolagents.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [web browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-browser.md>), [document ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/document-ai.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [document-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/document-ai.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [smolagents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smolagents.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>), [vlms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlms.md>), [web-browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-browser.md>)

## AI overview

smolagents now supports vision-language models natively in agentic pipelines. The article explains how agents can receive images at initialization or dynamically through memory callbacks, enabling visual web browsing, Document AI workflows, and processing long PDFs with visual elements.

## Source excerpt

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