Google unveils PaliGemma 2, its latest open vision-language model for advanced image understanding

Google has introduced PaliGemma 2, its latest open vision-language model (VLM). The updated model boasts 'long captioning' for more detailed and contextually relevant image captions. Available in various sizes, it offers leading performance in tasks such as chemical formula recognition, music score recognition, spatial reasoning, and chest X-ray report generation. PaliGemma 2 is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the original model, providing immediate performance gains without major code modifications. Pre-trained models and code are available on Kaggle, Hugging Face, and Ollama.