Vision Language Model

Canva unveils proprietary vision-language model for design generation

Canva has announced it built its own vision-language AI model aimed at producing design work, rather than relying solely on third-party generative AI systems. The company is positioning the model as a way to address the recognizable, low-quality aesthetic commonly associated with AI-generated graphics, often called 'AI slop.'

fastcompany.com · 2026-10-30

Apple releases LensVLM-9B, a vision-language model that compresses text as images

Apple's AI research team has published LensVLM-9B, a 9-billion-parameter vision language model that processes long documents by first compressing text into image form and then selectively decompressing only the pages it judges relevant, using learned tools. The model, code and demo scripts have been released on GitHub and Hugging Face under Apple's Machine Learning Research Model License and Sample Code License, with configurable compression ratios of 5x, 10x, or 15x.

huggingface.co · 2026-09-23