CogVLM Use Cases in Industry

CogVLM, a large multimodal model, provides the capability to answer questions about both images and text, offering unique applications in various industries, such as enforcing airport safety, monitoring product defects, and performing optical character recognition (OCR). Despite its end-of-life support, the model is notable for being open-source and deployable on personal infrastructure, distinguishing it from other multimodal models like OpenAI's GPT-4 with Vision and Google's Gemini. CogVLM excels in visual question answering, especially in complex scenarios where traditional object detection models struggle, and supports quantization to reduce memory usage, albeit with a slight trade-off in accuracy. Users can deploy CogVLM efficiently using Roboflow Inference, a computer vision inference server, which facilitates running the model with minimal manual setup.