North Micro Vision Instruct
CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct
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8K
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1K
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Open
API $/1M
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Modalities
text · image
Released
10 Aug 2026
License: apache-2.0 · CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct
AI summary
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North Micro Vision Instruct: 2.4B open-weight vision-language model
North Micro Vision Instruct is a 2.4B-parameter open-weight vision-language model from Cohere Labs combining a 400M native-resolution vision encoder with a 2B language model. It specializes in document understanding, OCR, and visual grounding while maintaining deployability on edge hardware. Released under Apache 2.0 license with no per-token API pricing.
What's new
- Native-resolution vision encoder preserves up to A4 page detail (1654×2339 px at 200 dpi)
- 92.1% DocVQA and 73.2% RefCOCO-avg grounding—strongest in size class
- 2.4B parameters (400M vision + 2B language) designed for edge deployment and fine-tuning
- Open-weights, self-hostable with no per-token API pricing
Best for
Document and chart understanding with layout preservationCompact edge-aware multimodal applicationsVisual grounding and object counting tasksMultilingual visual question answering
Source: https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Micro-Vision-Instruct