As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

If India’s AI ambitions needed a pre-India AI Impact Summit flex, Sarvam AI delivered it loud and clear. Days before the India AI Impact Summit 2026 kicks off in New Delhi, the Bengaluru-based startup ...

Scoping review finds large language models can support glaucoma education and decision support, but accuracy and multimodal ...

The field of optical image processing is undergoing a transformation driven by the rapid development of vision-language models (VLMs). A new review article published in iOptics details how these ...

A research team has developed a chest X-ray vision-language foundation model, MaCo, reducing the dependency on annotations while improving both clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. The study ...

Imagine a world where your devices not only see but truly understand what they’re looking at—whether it’s reading a document, tracking where someone’s gaze lands, or answering questions about a video.

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 ...

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 ...

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels, closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude are currently setting the pace, ...