Argues that open vision-language models need not depend on synthetic labels from closed models. Teams building on open multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition → models get the data-sourcing approach behind it.
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distillation — Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
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