vikhyatk / image-text-to-text updated 11 months ago

moondream2

Name: moondream2
Author: vikhyatk

⚠️ This repository contains the latest version of Moondream 2, our previous generation model. The latest version of Moondream is Moondream 3 (Preview).

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1.9 B

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daily snapshots · 55 days

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	3.9 GB	5.0 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: HfMoondream
Parameters: 1.9 B
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2024-03-04
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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