Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude

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<p>Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. The models use a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer backbone, shipping under Apache 2.0. They stay competitive with comparable Transformer VLMs while cutting time-to-first-token by about an order of magnitude.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/06/12/zyphra-release-zamba2-vl-hybrid-mamba2-transformer-vision-language-models-that-cut-time-to-first-token-by-about-an-order-of-magnitude/">Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.marktechpost.com">MarkTechPost</a>.</p>