Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Tensor Unveils OpenTau ( ) at CES 2026, Introducing a Breakthrough Open-Source Training Platform for Physical AI

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At CES 2026, Tensor today announced the official open-source release of OpenTau ( ), a powerful AI training toolchain designed to accelerate the development of ...

Meta’s Vision-Language Shift VL-JEPA Beats Bulky LLMs

VL-JEPA predicts meaning in embeddings, not words, combining visual inputs with eight Llama 3.2 layers to give faster answers ...
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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 ...
Anadolu Agency

Tesla stock falls 3% after Nvidia introduces open-source AI models for autonomous driving

Nvidia introduces 'Alpamayo family' of AI models with goal of using reasoning-based vision language action models to enable ...
Geeky Gadgets

Deepseek VL-2: The Future of Scalable Vision-Language AI

Deepseek VL-2 is a sophisticated vision-language model designed to address complex multimodal tasks with remarkable efficiency and precision. Built on a new mixture of experts (MoE) architecture, this ...
Slator

Cohere Labs Launches Vision-Language Dataset for African Languages

Cohere Labs unveils AfriAya, a vision-language dataset aimed at improving how AI models understand African languages and ...
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...
Dark Reading

Vision Language Models Keep an Eye on Physical Security

Vision language models (VLMs) have made impressive strides over the past year, but can they handle real-world enterprise challenges? All signs point to yes, with one caveat: They still need maturing ...
VentureBeat

New, open-source AI vision model emerges to take on ChatGPT — but it has issues

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nous Research, a private applied research group known for publishing open ...

Tensor Unveils OpenTau (τ) at CES 2026, Introducing a Breakthrough Open-Source Training Platform for Physical AI

At CES 2026, Tensor today announced the official open-source release of OpenTau (τ), a powerful AI training toolchain designed to accelerate the development of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation ...