Molmo2 8B (free)

About Molmo2 8B (free)

Molmo2-8B is an open vision-language model developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) as part of the Molmo2 family, supporting image, video, and multi-image understanding and grounding. It is based on Qwen3-8B and uses SigLIP 2 as its vision backbone, outperforming other open-weight, open-data models on short videos, counting, and captioning, while remaining competitive on long-video tasks.

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from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="allenai/molmo-2-8b-20260109",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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