Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding

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Last proof check: 2026-03-17
Score updated: 2026-04-02
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References: 0
Source count: 0
Coverage: 33%

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Claims: 8

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Source paper: Molmo2: Open Weights and Data for Vision-Language Models with Video Understanding and Grounding

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10611v1

Source count: Pending verification

Coverage: 33%

Last proof check: 2026-03-17T21:43:58.792Z

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Our best-in-class 8B model outperforms others in the class of open weight and data models on short videos, counting, and captioning
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On video-grounding Molmo2 significantly outperforms existing open-weight models like Qwen3-VL (35.5 vs 29.6 accuracy on video counting)
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surpasses proprietary models like Gemini 3 Pro on some tasks (38.4 vs 20.0 F1 on video pointing)
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Our key contribution is a collection of 7 new video datasets and 2 multi-image datasets, all collected without the use of closed VLMs
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show bi-directional attention on vision tokens and a novel token-weight strategy improves performance
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demonstrate exceptional new capabilities in point-driven grounding in single image, multi-image, and video tasks
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handling long-duration videos with complex scenes might present challenges
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Molmo2 has the potential to replace proprietary video-language models by offering similar or better performance while being fully open-source
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