Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Grounding lets vision-language models do more than describe—they can point to where a robot should grasp, which button to click, or which object to track across video frames. Today we're releasing MolmoPoint, a better way for models to point. 🧵 2206 0
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Most VLMs point by generating text coordinates—essentially dictating numbers. It works, but it wastes tokens, breaks at high resolutions, and forces models to learn an abstract numbering system that has nothing to do with how they actually see. 110 0
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/03/2026MolmoPoint takes a different approach. Instead of writing coordinates, the model points by selecting from the visual tokens it's already looking at—like the difference between reading out "position 347, 582" and tapping directly on a touchscreen. 120 0
