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Sep 23, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

Manzano: A Small 3B Multimodal Model That Unifies Image Understanding and Generation with SOTA Performance

Manzano introduces a hybrid vision tokenizer and a three‑stage training recipe that let a 3‑billion‑parameter multimodal LLM achieve state‑of‑the‑art results on both image‑understanding benchmarks and text‑to‑image generation, while scaling smoothly to larger sizes and minimizing task conflict.