H2O.ai has released two small language models, Mississippi 2B and Mississippi 0.8B, optimized for multimodal tasks.
Mississippi 2B is designed to analyze images based on natural language instructions and can generate detailed descriptions and explanations.
Mississippi 2B and Mississippi 0.8B can both be used for text extraction tasks, with the latter outperforming other models in optical character recognition.
H2O.ai envisions these models being deployed on devices with limited processing power and for latency-sensitive use cases.