NVIDIA NVLM: ELIZA on Steroids
NVIDIA NVLM: ELIZA on Steroids NVIDIA has entered the ring with NVLM – a powerful multimodal language model that understands images, writes code, and aims to rival GPT-4o. Yet under the hood, the same old structure remains: a predictive statistical model pretending to understand. Welcome back, ELIZA – now with 72 billion parameters. What is NVLM? Architecture: Decoder-only LLM based on Qwen2-72B Multimodality: Text and images via InternViT-6B vision encoder Benchmarks: Outperforms GPT-4o in OCRBench, MathVista, ChartQA Open Source: Model weights and training code available (Hugging Face) The Eliza Effect Reloaded The original Eliza effect describes the illusion of understanding triggered by simple yet convincing dialog patterns. NVLM perfects this illusion: bigger models, more data, image recognition, fluent responses. But just like Eliza, it only pretends to understand. ...