A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like laptops with under around 1GB of RAM. The team says that they’re also ideal for developers trying to process large amounts of data very cheaply. SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M are just 256 million parameters and 500 million parameters in size, respecti...