Introducing METAGENE-1🧬, an open-source 7B-parameter metagenomics foundation model pretrained on 1.5 trillion base pairs. Built for pandemic monitoring, pathogen detection, and biosurveillance, with SOTA results across many genomics tasks. 🧵1/

Landed at Vancouver to attend #NeurIPS :-) Excited to chat about multimodal models, AI4Science, decision making, and more!

Let's go! We are releasing SmolVLM, a smol 2B VLM built for on-device inference that outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs. SmolVLM can be fine-tuned on a Google collab and be run on a laptop! Or process millions of documents with a consumer GPU!

tfw you realize that this isn't an alt twitter for academic posting but an alt insta for cute doggos. this is doodle, our border collie pup that often used as adversarial attacks for image classification models (they classify him as corgi :-)