# vision-language models insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged vision-language models.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/vision-language-models/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [IBM released Granite-Docling-258M as a compact document-conversion VLM](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ibm-granite-docling-258m-september-2025/)
  IBM released Granite-Docling-258M on September 24, 2025, an Apache-2.0 258M vision-language model for structured document conversion.
- [Ai2 released olmOCR as an open 7B vision model for PDF extraction](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-ai2-olmocr-pdf-extraction-february-2025/)
  Ai2 released olmOCR on February 25, 2025, pairing a fine-tuned 7B vision-language model with an open PDF-to-Markdown pipeline.
- [Qwen3-VL’s flagship release made vision deployment a versioned architecture choice](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-september-2025/)
  Qwen announced Qwen3-VL on September 22, 2025, describing new vision, video, spatial-modeling and multimodal-reasoning capabilities.
- [Qwen2.5-VL made visual input handling an explicit systems boundary](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-qwen2-5-vl-vision-language-january-2025/)
  Qwen released Qwen2.5-VL on January 26, 2025, pairing image and video understanding with coordinate and structured-output claims.
- [SmolVLM’s 2B release made local vision evaluation a memory-and-input contract](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-smolvlm-open-vision-2024/)
  Hugging Face introduced SmolVLM on November 26, 2024 as an open 2B vision-language family with base, synthetic and instruction-tuned variants.


## More information

- [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt)
- [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/)
- [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)