Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models. The release covers three sizes: 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. Each model is built on the Zamba2 hybrid SSM–Transformer backbone. Vision-language models (VLMs) read images and text together. They answer questions about charts, documents, and photos. Most open VLMs use a dense Transformer as the…

print(“\n[5/10] Creating a synthetic multimodal report…”) monthly_data = pd.DataFrame( { “Month”: [“Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”], “Query Volume”: [1200, 1700, 2100, 2600, 3300, 4100], “Hybrid Accuracy”: [0.71, 0.74, 0.79, 0.83, 0.87, 0.91], “Average Latency ms”: [980, 920, 850, 790, 760, 730], } ) table_md = monthly_data.to_markdown(index=False) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 4.8)) plt.plot(monthly_data[“Month”], monthly_data[“Query Volume”], marker=”o”, label=”Query Volume”)…

Clarissa Mansbridge spent nearly two decades building an entertainment career behind the scenes, working with the likes of Jason DeRulo and Shengo Deane, Kim Kardashian’s former bodyguard, but she rarely appeared at public events. She liked the thrill of it: building someone’s brand, swerving crises, and dealing with day-to-day challenges. Then, three years ago, her…