Moondream 2
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Vikhyat
- C · CEO & Politics
- Jay Allen — No public partisan activity documented
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text+Image+Audio
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Vik Korrapati (Co-founder & CTO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Multimodal LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, Apache 2.0)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Moondream 2, a small open vision-language model designed to run efficiently anywhere and updated frequently (its June 21, 2025 release added grounded reasoning, sharper object detection, faster text generation and better UI understanding); Moondream now calls it its previous-generation model, after Moondream 3 (Preview).
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @moondreamai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Vikhyat, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“Moondream 2.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/moondream-2.html