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Obsidian-3B: The Smallest Multimodal LLM

Can a 3B model compete with the giants?

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Donato Riccio
Dec 07, 2023
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NousResearch has released Obsidian-3B-V0.5, the latest addition to their Obsidian series of multimodal language models. This 3 billion parameter model is designed for vision and language tasks, representing an important step towards more capable multimodal AI systems.

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