Quick Takes
- New Efficient Unified Frameworks: Ming-Omni joins the field with 2.8B active params, boosting cross-modality integration.
- Specialized Models Outperform Giants: Xiaomi’s MiMo-VL-7B beats GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks!
Top Research
- Ming-Omni: Unifies text, images, audio, and video with an MoE architecture, matching 10B-scale MLLMs with only 2.8B params.
- MiMo-VL-7B: Scores 59.4 on OlympiadBench, outperforming Qwen2.5-VL-72B on 35/40 tasks.
- ViGoRL: Uses RL for precise visual grounding, connecting language to image regions. Announcement
Tools to Watch
- Qwen2.5-Omni-3B: Slashes VRAM by 50%, retains 90%+ of 7B model’s power for consumer GPUs. Release
- ElevenLabs AI 2.0: Smarter voice agents with turn-taking and enterprise-grade RAG.
Trends & Predictions
- Unified Frameworks March On: Ming-Omni drives rapid iteration in cross-modal systems.
- Specialized Efficiency Wins: MiMo-VL-7B shows optimization trumps scale—more to come!
Community Spotlight
- Sunil Kumar’s VLM Visualization demo maps image patches to language tokens for models like GPT-4o.
- Rounak Jain’s open-source iPhone agent uses GPT-4.1 to handle app tasks.
Check out the full newsletter for more updates
Quick Takes
- New Efficient Unified Frameworks: Ming-Omni joins the field with 2.8B active params, boosting cross-modality integration.
- Specialized Models Outperform Giants: Xiaomi’s MiMo-VL-7B beats GPT-4o on multiple benchmarks!
Top Research
- Ming-Omni: Unifies text, images, audio, and video with an MoE architecture, matching 10B-scale MLLMs with only 2.8B params.
- MiMo-VL-7B: Scores 59.4 on OlympiadBench, outperforming Qwen2.5-VL-72B on 35/40 tasks.
- ViGoRL: Uses RL for precise visual grounding, connecting language to image regions. Announcement
Tools to Watch
- Qwen2.5-Omni-3B: Slashes VRAM by 50%, retains 90%+ of 7B model’s power for consumer GPUs. Release
- ElevenLabs AI 2.0: Smarter voice agents with turn-taking and enterprise-grade RAG.
Trends & Predictions
- Unified Frameworks March On: Ming-Omni drives rapid iteration in cross-modal systems.
- Specialized Efficiency Wins: MiMo-VL-7B shows optimization trumps scale—more to come!
Community Spotlight
- Sunil Kumar’s VLM Visualization demo maps image patches to language tokens for models like GPT-4o.
- Rounak Jain’s open-source iPhone agent uses GPT-4.1 to handle app tasks.
Check out the full newsletter for more updates