Microsoft Unveils Video-Capable Vision-Language Model Mage-VL
Multimodal model handling images, video, and text released open-source on Hugging Face
Microsoft's consumer AI organization. It builds Copilot, using both its own models and OpenAI's models. In August 2026, it introduced Mage-VL, a vision-language model capable of video understanding. That same month, in a redesign that unified the Copilot app, it removed the character "Mico." Microsoft Research unveiled CARE-X in August 2026, which directly calculates cardiothoracic ratio from chest X-rays. Its newly released coding model was assessed, as of August 2026, to fall short of DeepSeek in both price and performance.
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Multimodal model handling images, video, and text released open-source on Hugging Face
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