North Micro Vision Instruct
by Cohere
North Micro Vision Instruct is a model from Cohere, released on August 12, 2026. It ranks #213 of 220 models by Intelligence Score with a score of -5.1.
Compact open-weight vision-language model (2.4B) with native-resolution image support for VQA, captioning, grounding, OCR, charts, and documents. Custom 400M SigLIP 2-based vision encoder + 2B North Micro LLM backbone (Command A+ style). Multilingual and multi-image. LM context 128K; multimodal training validated to 8K. Not a reasoning/tool-calling model. Intended for prototyping and fine-tuning.
Key specs
| Provider | Cohere |
|---|---|
| Release date | 2026-08-12 |
| License | open source |
| Intelligence Score | -5.1 |
Quick answers
Is North Micro Vision Instruct open source?
Yes. North Micro Vision Instruct is an open model released under the open source license.
When was North Micro Vision Instruct released?
Cohere released North Micro Vision Instruct on August 12, 2026.
How does North Micro Vision Instruct compare to Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning)?
North Micro Vision Instruct scores -5.1 on the Intelligence Score versus 60.5 for Claude Opus 5.5 (Reasoning), the current #1.
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