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Moondream 2B and 0.5B Vision model 👀

An open source lightweight vision model for your local AI stack

Author

Yash Rahurikar
January 14, 2025

I have been tinkering around with the new Moondream 2B model (small/ tiny vision model) that you can run on your local system.

Limited memory requirements, runs on CPU no GPU required. 🤖

Common capabilities are to be able to:

  1. Querying images

  2. Captioning

  3. Object detection

  4. Get co-ordinates of items on the image.

Use cases can be:

  1. Good for OCR, doing a POC on this!

  2. Gaze detection

  3. Extracting Structured data in JSON, XML and Markdown.

Good part is it so light weight you can run it on a Raspberry Pi, used for some IOT use cases also.

Checkout the release note here:

Moondream 2025-01-09 Release: Structured Text, Enhanced OCR, Gaze Detection

Moondream releases structured text output, improved text understanding/OCR, and gaze detection capability.

moondream.ai/blog/introducing-a-new-moondream-1-9b-and-gpu-support