A Deepdive into Aya Vision: Advancing the Frontier of Multilingual Multimodality
The Aya Vision family (8B and 32B parameters) is a set of open-weight vision-language models supporting 23 languages. It builds on Aya Expanse, using synthetic annotations, translation, and model merging. Evaluations show it outperforms models like Llama-3.2 90B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B on multilingual benchmarks. The models are released for research.
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