AlmawaveLabs/Velvet2-3B-Vision
just landed · new, unvettedmodel
New, unvetted: created or first seen in the last few days, not from a trusted org and not past the signal threshold yet.
Velvet2 is the new generation of models developed by Almawave Labs, designed to provide a unified platform for multilingual, multimodal, and enterprise AI applications. 4.3B params. License: apache-2.0. Vendor-reported: "Velvet2 is the new generation of state of the art models developed by Almawave Labs, designed to provide a unified platform for multilingual, multimodal, and enterprise AI applications." Vendor-reported: "Velvet2-3B-Vision outperforms both Salamandra-VL-7B and Villanova-2B-VL-2603 on nearly all shared benchmarks while using fewer parameters than Salamandra-VL-7B."
- Vendor-reported: Velvet2 is the new generation of state of the art models developed by Almawave Labs, designed to provide a unified platform for multilingual, multimodal, and enterprise AI applications.
- Vendor-reported: Velvet2-3B-Vision outperforms both Salamandra-VL-7B and Villanova-2B-VL-2603 on nearly all shared benchmarks while using fewer parameters than Salamandra-VL-7B.
- Org
- AlmawaveLabs
- Released
- 2026-10-14
- Status
- just landed · new, unvetted
- License
- apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Parameters
- 4.3B
- Task
- image-text-to-text · vision
- Signal
- 8 HF likes · 55 downloads
- Weights
- gated
Runs on
mixed: real files + estimate; need = weights + FP16 KV cache for 8K tokens + 1GB. A sizing calculation, not tested.
- Q4 ~4.1 GB (estimated size): no listed device
- Q8 ~6.1 GB (estimated size): 8GB GPU (4060 / 3070)
- FP16 ~10.2 GB: 12GB GPU (RTX 3060), 16GB GPU (5060 Ti / 4060 Ti / 4080 / 5080), 24GB GPU (3090 / 4090), 32GB GPU (5090), 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), 16GB GPU (7800 XT / 9070 XT), 24GB GPU (7900 XTX), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Arc B60 24GB, Arc B70 32GB, Mac 16GB, Mac 24GB, Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB, Mac 64GB (M1 Max), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 32GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)
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