Georgios Mastrapas

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.