Contrebande Labs

God help the people you advise on AI matters.

Dude, sure, make America unilingual again.

Still, of course, there are absolutely no indication at all that multilingual training yields better results even at unilingual tasks. None at all.

Also, you do know that Hugging Face is a French company, right?

Barely, but I certainly didn't know the businesses there were required by law to only serve white-speaking customers.

[...] if unilingual (therefore small) model is capable of doing a niche task [...]

Ironically, niche is a french word that means the exception, i.e: not the real world.

And I don't think Smol models are meant to be niche, no.

it's even reasonable to translate the original

This is a VLM so again, no. You don't translate images.

Personally, I don't think it's fair to compare a unilingual model on unilingual benchmarks against multilingual models. Are unilingual models that relevant in 2025, anyways? There are no use cases in the real world for unilingual models.