We're excited to announce BananaMind 2V, our small vision model series! These models are NOT released yet. We will release them in mid-august! BananaMind 2V will include: BananaMind 2V 256M, the flagship based on BananaMind 2 Pro (BananaMind 2 Pro is not released yet). BananaMind 2V 100M, our mid model, based on BananaMind 2 Medium. BananaMind 2V 50M, our smallest vision model, based on BananaMind 2 Mini. These are currently unreleased and will release in mid-august. Our training will start after BananaMind 2 Pro has finished training.
I made a speedrun leaderboard for LoRA fine-tuning. One frozen task (Qwen2.5-1.5B to 57% on GSM8K), one GPU, fastest training run wins. Every record gets re-run 3x with fresh seeds on identical hardware before it counts, so no self-reported numbers.
The baseline was 11:57 three days ago. Someone already got it down to 1:44, with data pruning and a chunked cross-entropy that never materializes the logits.
Attempting is free (Modal's monthly credits cover full runs), and the second track (SmolLM2 + SQuAD) is still sitting at its naive baseline β easy first record for someone.
The central idea is simple: before asking an LLM to reason over a document, the vision encoder must preserve every character stroke, digit, punctuation mark, and layout cue.
MonkeyOCRv2 is pretrained on 113M document images across 17 languages using joint image-to-text generation and pixel-level reconstruction.
Your coding agent is waiting on you to decide what to try next. It doesn't originate that decision on its own.
What's usually missing is a way to generate that decision systematically, grounded in something more than the random paper that came across someone's feed that week.
Outrider starts from research with code and data behind it to scope a change applying the core method in your own codebase. A feature branch gets gated on your own evaluation methods before it reaches you in review.
The result is tied to what actually happened in your system, not to a model's read on its own output.
Here's what a code recommendation system looks like end to end.
small reasoning models are overrated, these little ones just doom loop a lot by default. good data will always be the moat when training or finetuning small models and latest sota models like fable 5 and gpt 5.6 are increasingly making this a lot easier to do.