Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Allen AI
multimodal LLM

Molmo2-8B

Ai2 vision-language model for image, multi-image and video understanding with pointing, tracking and grounded video QA.

Molmo2 capabilities figure from the official GitHub README.
Levelmodel
Classmultimodal LLM
Parameters8.66B
Contextnot in the notes
Released11 Dec 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

finetunecontinued pretrain
Qwen3-8B to Molmo2-8B: finetune, high confidenceQwen3-8B to OneRec-Foundation 8B: continued pretrain, high confidenceQwen3-8B to MiniMax Music 3: continued pretrain, medium confidenceQwen3-8BQwen3-8BAlibaba (Qwen), Apr 2025Molmo2-8BMolmo2-8BAllen AI, Dec 2025OneRec-Foundation 8BOneRec-Foundation 8BKuaishou, Jan 2026MiniMax Music 3MiniMax Music 3MiniMax, Aug 2026
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3-8B is the parent (finetune)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 4 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Allen AI
Family
Molmo 2
Released
11 Dec 2025 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
11 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer Qwen3-8B language model with SigLIP 2 vision encoder
Total parameters
8.66B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
Named 8B; Hugging Face lists 9B; Artificial Analysis gives 8.66B
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/allenai/Molmo2-8B https://huggingface.co/allenai/Molmo2-8B
  2. allenai.org/blog/molmo2 https://allenai.org/blog/molmo2
  3. artificialanalysis.ai/models/molmo2-8b https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/molmo2-8b

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Molmo2-8B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/allen-ai-molmo2-8b/, records of October 2026.