Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far ...
The Robot Report

Vision-language-action models are the next leap in autonomous robotics

Explore how vision-language-action models like Helix, GR00T N1, and RT-1 are enabling robots to understand instructions and act autonomously.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with computer vision, tool use enhancements

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that it says is more adept at automating work tasks than its earlier algorithms. GPT-5.4 is available in ChatGPT, the Codex programming tool ...
SlashGear

Ollama's Qwen3-VL Introduces The Most Powerful Vision Language Model - Here's How It Works

Imagine pointing your phone's camera at the world, asking it to identify the dark green plant leaves, and asking if it's poisonous for dogs. Likewise, you're working on a computer, pull up the AI, and ...
SiliconANGLE

Hugging Face open-sources world’s smallest vision language model

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...
Geeky Gadgets

Figure AI HELIX : Vision-Language-Action Model Making Humanoid Robots Smarter

Figure AI has unveiled HELIX, a pioneering Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that integrates vision, language comprehension, and action execution into a single neural network. This innovation allows ...
TechCrunch

Cohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-class

Cohere For AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing ...
VentureBeat

Cohere's first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there's a catch

Canadian AI startup Cohere launched in 2019 specifically targeting the enterprise, but independent research has shown it has so far struggled to gain much of a market share among third-party ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vision Language Models Come Rushing In

Just when you thought the pace of change of AI models couldn’t get any faster, it accelerates yet again. In the popular news media, the introduction of DeepSeek in January 2025 created a moment that ...