Moondream

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September 2025

Moondream AI
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Moondream 3

Moondream 3 preview punches above its weight in the tiny-VLM race

Moondream released a preview of Moondream 3, a small open vision-language model that punches well above its size class. CTO and co-founder Vik Korrapati joined the show to explain why small, capable vision models matter for real product building, framing Moondream 3 as a practical tool rather than a benchmark flex.

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Moondream
New ModelsOpen weights

Moondream 3 (Preview)

Moondream 3 Preview: 9B MoE VLM with 2B active parameters

Moondream released a preview of Moondream 3, a 9B mixture-of-experts vision-language model with only 2B active parameters. It targets frontier-level visual reasoning at small-model cost, continuing Moondream's run of efficient open vision models.

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