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Microsoft's new AI model, Florence-2, is a vision foundation model that can handle various vision and vision-language tasks using a unified, prompt-based representation3. It comes in two sizes, 232M and 771M parameters, and excels at tasks such as captioning, object detection, visual grounding, and segmentation. Florence-2 uses a sequence-to-sequence architecture that integrates an image encoder and a multi-modality encoder-decoder, allowing it to handle different vision tasks without requiring task-specific architectural modifications. The model has shown performance on par or better than many larger models in zero-shot captioning tests and fine-tuned tasks like visual question answering.
The Florence-2 model comes in two sizes: 232M and 771M parameters4. It excels at various vision and vision-language tasks, such as captioning, object detection, visual grounding, and segmentation5. The model performs on par or better than many large vision models, demonstrating its versatility and effectiveness in handling diverse tasks with a unified, prompt-based representation.