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Apple's LensVLM Reads Documents by Looking at Pictures of Them, Then Zooms In Only Where It Matters
Apple released LensVLM-9B on Hugging Face: a vision-language model built on Qwen3.5-9B that scans a compressed image representation of text, then selectively expands only the relevant pages back to uncompressed form. Our tracker caught its likes jumping 1,123% in 24 hours — from 13 to 159 — the day after it first appeared.