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Georgios Mastrapas

Senior AI Research Engineer

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Small model, big benchmarks: how Jina-VLM beat the competition at 2.4B and what ICLR told us is coming next
Jina AI

May 27, 2026

Small model, big benchmarks: how Jina-VLM beat the competition at 2.4B and what ICLR told us is coming next

Jina-VLM is a 2.4B open multilingual VLM leading VQA benchmarks across 29 languages. Plus: five days of ICLR 2026 takeaways on RLVR, sparse embeddings and retrieval.

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By: Andreas Koukounas, Georgios Mastrapas and Scott Martens

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