MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 17 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — H2O.ai, a pioneer in sovereign AI and the world’s leading agentic, highly accurate predictive AI company, today announced its openly available H2OVL Mississippi visual-language multimodal models has reached a significant milestone: surpassing over a million downloads monthly — a breakthrough moment arriving just as the global AI community heads into NVIDIA GTC 2026.
The H2OVL Mississippi models, hosted on Hugging Face, have rapidly emerged as one of the most adopted open multimodal OCR‑capable models in the ecosystem, matching leading category performers such as Qwen, DeepSeek, and Google’s Gemma (as publicly benchmarked). This surge in adoption reflects an accelerating movement toward sovereign, open, transparent, and locally deployable AI models — a direction H2O.ai has championed for more than a decade.
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