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Cohere•August 10, 2026
North Micro Vision Instruct
Open Source
vision
multimodal
conversational
multilingual
### TL;DR
North Micro Vision Instruct is a 2.4B-parameter open-weight vision-language model designed for efficient multimodal tasks. It features native-resolution image processing and is optimized for prototyping, task-specific fine-tuning, and specialized visual applications.
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Pricing
Free (Open-Weight)
Cost structure
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N/A
Current release version
Hardware
An 8GB VRAM GPU for its native bfloat16 precision, or just 4GB to 6GB of VRAM (or standard system RAM) if you run a quantized version
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Category
Open Source
Licensing model
Region
Canada
Primary region
Key Features
- Native-resolution image processing for high visual detail
- Compact 2.4B-parameter scale for efficient deployment
- Broad multilingual support across 11+ languages
- Multimodal capabilities including VQA, OCR, and grounding
- Apache 2.0 open-weight license
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