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scoots_kon Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed

Will do!

scoots_kon Moondream 3 Preview: Frontier-level reasoning at a blazing speed

Moondream 2 has been very useful for me: I've been using it to automatically label object detection datasets for novel classes and distill an orders of magnitude smaller but similarly accurate CNN.

One oddity is that I haven't seen the claimed improvements beyond the 2025-01-09 tag - subsequent releases improve recall but degrade precision pretty significantly. It'd be amazing if object detection VLMs like this reported class confidences to better address this issue. That said, having a dedicated object detection API is very nice and absent from other models/wrappers AFAIK.

Looking forward to Moondream 3 post-inference optimizations. Congrats to the team. The founder Vik is a great follow on X if that's your thing.

scoots_kon Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?

I wrote my first blog post: Sleep Hygiene for Software Engineers!

https://sklum.github.io/2020/06/14/sleep-hygiene-for-softwar...