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Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)December 14, 2025

Molmo2-8B

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### TL;DR

Molmo2-8B is an open vision-language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) that supports image, video, and multi-image understanding and grounding. Trained on publicly available third-party datasets, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among multimodal models of similar size.

Key Insights & Metrics

Pricing
Free
Cost structure
Version
1.0
Current release version
Hardware
NVIDIA A100 GPU, 8GB RAM, CPU only
Compute requirements
Category
Open Source
Licensing model
Region
United States
Primary region

Key Features

  • Supports image, video, and multi-image understanding
  • Trained on publicly available third-party datasets
  • State-of-the-art performance among similar-sized multimodal models

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