There is a newer BLIP-2, but it's also fairly old. You're better off with many other local models such as Moondream 3 https://huggingface.co/moondream/moondream

There is a newer BLIP-2, but it's also fairly old. You're better off with many other local models such as Moondream 3 https://huggingface.co/moondream/moondream3-preview https://huggingface.co/moondream/moondream3-preview. Moondream is great as it can point, count, perform bounding boxes, descriptions, and visual grounded reasoning.