Kakao Open-Sources AI Image Recognition Models

Kakao has released two versions of its internally developed artificial intelligence image recognition model, Kanana-2-vision-encoder, as open source.

The models include a medium version with 426 million parameters and a tiny version with 98 million parameters.

The tiny model, with fewer than 100 million parameters, outperformed some competing models with more than 400 million parameters on certain benchmarks.

Kakao plans to support companies and researchers in South Korea and overseas in developing Korean-language document recognition and image-based AI services using the models.

The company also plans to gradually release the language, vision and audio processing components of its internally developed multimodal AI model, Kanana-o.