Cohere added North Micro Vision to its open-source family under Apache 2.0. At 2.4B parameters, it supports native-resolution vision, multi-turn multimodal chat, spatial grounding, and multilingual image understanding, outperforming Gemma 4 E2B and Ministral 3 3B on document VQA.

Key Takeaways

  • โœ“Cohere released 2.4B North Micro Vision under Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face.
  • โœ“Designed for enterprise document parsing, visual QA, and spatial grounding.
  • โœ“Lightweight footprint enables edge deployment and private multimodal agent integration.