Meet North Micro Vision: A 2.4B Native-Resolution Vision-Language Model

Cohere has released North-Micro-Vision-Instruct, a 2.4-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for fine-tunable multimodal applications on servers, laptops, and potentially edge-class hardware. The model combines a 400M-parameter native-resolution vision encoder, a projector, and the 2B North Micro language model, enabling it to retain image aspect ratios and fine details in documents, charts, tables, screenshots, and forms. Its four-stage training process progressively increased supported resolution to an A4 page at 200 dpi, emphasized multilingual OCR, document analysis, visual grounding, and instruction following, and concluded with preference tuning for safety, formatting, and response quality. Benchmark results indicate particular strengths in document understanding and visual grounding relative to similarly compact open models, while performance varies across general VQA, STEM, hallucination, and text-only evaluations. Weights are available through Hugging Face, with community MLX-VLM support and fine-tuning options through NVIDIA AutoModel and Axolotl; public vLLM support is planned.

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