multimodal LLM
SmolVLM2 256M Video Instruct
SmolVLM2 256M Video Instruct, a checkpoint of the SmolVLM family. Small open vision language models (256M to 2.2B) for images and video that run on laptops and phones.
Levelvariant
Classmultimodal LLM
Parameters256.48M
Contextnot in the notes
Released11 Feb 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
R&D Topics
Identity
- Developer
- Hugging Face
- Family
- SmolVLM
- Released
- 11 Feb 2025 sourcesregistry date
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 12 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
- Total parameters
- 256.48M sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- Parameter count from the safetensors index on Hugging Face.
- 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
- Model card languages: en
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.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperHugging Facestartup, USA / France
Hugging Facestartup, USA / FranceModelSmolVLM2 256M Video InstructHugging Face, multimodal LLM
SmolVLM2 256M Video InstructHugging Face, multimodal LLMR&D TopicsSmall Language Models (SLM)Video Understanding with Language ModelsVisual Instruction Tuning
Use CasesIndustrial Copilots and Maintenance AssistantsIndustrialIndonesian and Regional-Language LLMsPublic SectorTelecom Domain LLMs and BenchmarksTelecomClinical LLM (Frontier Proprietary)Healthcare+2 moreUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs It
PT Pertamina Geothermal EnergyIn production, 14 Jul 2026
Banner HealthIn production, 11 Jan 2026CommureIn production, 11 Jan 2026FlatironIn production, 11 Jan 2026+27 moreDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
PT Pertamina Geothermal EnergyIn production, 14 Jul 2026Banner HealthIn production, 11 Jan 2026CommureIn production, 11 Jan 2026FlatironIn production, 11 Jan 2026+27 moreDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.Organisations 1
R&D topics 3
Small Language Models (SLM)Models under about 10B parameters that fit consumer devices.produced byVisual Instruction TuningConnecting a vision encoder to a language model and training it on image-grounded instruc…produced byVideo Understanding with Language ModelsVision-language models that summarise, search and answer questions about long videos.produced by
Sources
- huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct
- replicate.com/lucataco/smolvlm-instruct https://replicate.com/lucataco/smolvlm-instruct
- docs.roboflow.com/models/supported-models/smolvlm2.md https://docs.roboflow.com/models/supported-models/smolvlm2.md
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "SmolVLM2 256M Video Instruct", https://aurion.semai.id/models/hugging-face-smolvlm2-256m-video-instruct/, records of October 2026.