[r/LocalLLaMA] Penguin-VL 8B/2B by Tencent

Summary

Tencent has released Penguin-VL, a new series of compact Vision-Language Models (8B/2B) designed to explore the efficiency limits of small-scale VLMs. Unlike many existing models, Penguin-VL is built from the ground up, incorporating LLM-based vision encoder construction and multimodal pretraining before instruction tuning. This approach aims for high performance within a smaller, more efficient footprint.

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