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SmolVLM

huggingface.co·AI

SmolVLM is an application hosted as a Hugging Face Space that enables users to receive answers by combining text queries with uploaded images or videos. The tool allows users to submit their own visual media—either images or videos—alongside a written question, and in return, it provides a detailed response. This approach addresses the need for interpreting or analyzing visual content in conjunction with specific textual questions, offering a way to extract information or insights from multimedia inputs. The platform is delivered as a web-based application accessible through Hugging Face Spaces, with no evidence indicating other deployment options or integrations. The evidence does not specify the underlying AI models or technical details beyond mentioning the use of text, images, and video as inputs. There is no information provided about pricing, licensing, or any particular audience or use case beyond the general function of answering questions about user-supplied media. SmolVLM is positioned as a tool for combining visual and textual data to generate responses, but the available evidence does not elaborate on additional features, supported formats, or any specialized capabilities. Details about its maker are limited to the name HuggingFaceTB as the creator of the Space. No information is given regarding open-source status, commercial plans, or target user groups. The evidence does not provide enough detail to support a comprehensive or lengthy description.

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Overview

4 features

In the AI space, SmolVLM takes a focused approach. It focuses on answering complex questions by combining visual and textual information from user uploads. It is built as a consumer product for researchers. SmolVLM costs nothing to use. It runs on the web, the command line, and embeddable surfaces.

Behind SmolVLM is HuggingFaceTB, and it first shipped in 2024. Among its 4 catalogued features are image upload, video upload, and multimodal analysis.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

  • ✓Image upload
  • ✓Video upload
  • ✓Multimodal analysis
  • ✓Question answering
Tags
multimodal-aivideo-analysisimage-qaai-demomedia-understanding
AI capabilities
ImageVideoText
Inference: Cloud API

Built with & integrations

Hosting
AWS
AI providers
local_oss
Runs on
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Detected from
AWS
x-amz-cf-id header · x-amz-cf-pop header · via header
local_oss
huggingface in the HTML

Trust & compliance

Verified signals
✓HTTPS✓Free tier

Indexing history

1

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

  1. Indexed10 Jul · 22:24 UTC
    HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2 verified against its public source
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Frequently asked questions about SmolVLM

What does SmolVLM do?
SmolVLM focuses on answering complex questions by combining visual and textual information from user uploads. It is catalogued under AI on PulseGate.
Who should use SmolVLM?
SmolVLM is a consumer product built for researchers.
Does SmolVLM have a free plan?
Yes — SmolVLM is free to use.
What platforms does SmolVLM run on?
SmolVLM runs on the web, the command line, and embeddable surfaces.
Is SmolVLM still maintained?
Unverified. SmolVLM has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What are alternatives to SmolVLM?
Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Instant SmolLM, SmolVLM2 2.2B Instruct, and SmolVLM2 HighlightGenerator.Instant SmolLMSmolVLM2 2.2B InstructSmolVLM2 HighlightGenerator
Who makes SmolVLM?
SmolVLM is developed by HuggingFaceTB.
When did SmolVLM launch?
SmolVLM first shipped in 2024.

At a glance

Platforms
Cli · Web
Languages
English
Built for
researchers
Model
B2C
Solves
Answering complex questions by combining visual and textual information from user uploads.

Registered as

Hugging Face Spaces
HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2

Developer

HuggingFaceTB

Index record

Identity confidence
High · 94.4
Indexed
10 Jul 2026
Lifecycle
Alive
Last seen
10 Jul 2026
Identity audit (12)
Slug
huggingfacetb-smolvlm2-huggingface-co
Lifecycle last checked
8 Aug 2026
Verification state
Indexed for public listing
Listing state
Listed: yes
Index status
Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot
10 Jul 2026
Timeline basis
Indexed-at chronology. This listing's first-seen date was written by the catalog backfill, not observed here, so it is not treated as a sighting.
Name from
Derived from the project's own page and URL.
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Assigned by a language model.
Summary from
Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from
Detected by a language model from page content.
Canonical URL
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2

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