Moondream
Moondream distributes permissively licensed AI models on Hugging Face and runs a vision, audio, and language inference engine.
Moondream distributes permissively licensed AI models on Hugging Face and runs a vision, audio, and language inference engine.
moondream.aiCrawled Nov 12, 2026
Photon is an inference engine for vision, audio, and language models. Built for fast inference. Powered by compiled megakernels. Free.
Managed Moondream inference in the cloud.
Lens adapts Moondream to specific tasks using a small dataset, an API, and deployment on Photon.
Production-ready vision language models with built-in grounding skills. Fast enough for realtime. Small enough for edge.
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Prime Intellect acquired Moondream to advance open models and fast multimodal AI.
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Prime Intellect acquires Moondream, a Seattle-founded startup that makes small, open-source image-understanding models. Its co-founders Jay Allen and Vik Korrapati join Prime Intellect to lead inference work and expand its efforts in vision and computer-using AI agents. Moondream’s Photon inference engine compiles each model into a GPU megakernel to reduce idle time between tasks. Prime Intellect keeps the Moondream name for efficient models and offers its latest model, Moondream 3.1, through its inference service.
Oct 2026GeekWireNews article
Moondream launches **moondream2**, a lightweight vision language model achieving strong benchmark results while fitting on edge devices. The open-source tool enables on-device image recognition without cloud dependency, targeting smartphone applications. Developers can integrate it for privacy-preserving, offline-capable vision tasks.
Nov 2024The DecoderNews article
Moondream secures $4.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop its open-source vision-language model. The company, based in San Francisco, aims to integrate AI capabilities into applications through this technology. The funding supports further advancement of its AI-driven solutions for developers and enterprises.
Oct 2024FinSMEsNews article