Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models using a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer...

Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models using a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer design. The models come in 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters and cut time-to-first-token by about an order of magnitude compared to dense Transformers. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/12/zyphra-release-zamba2-vl-hybrid-mamba2-transformer-vision-language-models-that-cut-time-to-first-token-by-about-an-order-of-magnitude/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIResearch