# Real-time Image Captioning

Moondream is a lightweight vision-language model designed for efficient cross-platform deployment. The 4-bit quantized version released on April 14, 2025 significantly reduces memory usage while maintaining high accuracy.

This is a fine-tuned version of CLIP-GPT2 for real-time image captioning tasks, designed to assist visually impaired individuals in understanding image content.

moondream2 is a compact vision-language model specifically designed for efficient operation on edge devices, offering convenient deployment through the llamafile format.