Nvidia drops NVLM 1.0, an open rival to GPT-4o
Nvidia just released the NVLM 1.0 family of multimodal models, making weights public for its 72B flagship NVLM-D-72B. The model matches frontier proprietary systems like GPT-4o across vision tasks and unexpectedly gained 4.3 points in text benchmarks post-multimodal training, giving open-source developers frontier-grade power.