Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs' new image model has 5.6 billion parameters and an 8GB build that runs on a consumer graphics card

The German lab has shrunk its open image model by 38% against the version it replaces, and says it beats larger open models and two closed ones on its own evaluations.

Nvidia's new open model activates 12 billion of its 120 billion parameters, and the small one is quantised down to 24GB

Nvidia released two open models on Wednesday: a 120-billion-parameter multimodal one for servers, and a 74-billion-parameter one squeezed into 24GB of memory with two-bit weights.

Black Forest Labs has opened the weights of a 7-billion-parameter model that drives robots from camera frames

It takes camera frames, the robot's state and a written instruction, and returns the next chunk of actions alongside the next video frames.