This container houses the Nemotron Nano12B v2 VL model, which is an advanced autoregressive Visual Language Model (VLM) designed for document transcription from images and videos, outputting text in a reading order.
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL Container Overview
Description:
This container houses the Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL model, which is an advanced autoregressive Visual Language Model (VLM) designed for document transcription from images and videos, outputting text in a reading order.
The container components are ready for commercial/non-commercial use.
License/Terms of Use:
GOVERNING TERMS: The NIM container is governed by the NVIDIA Software License Agreement and the Product-Specific Terms for NVIDIA AI Products and the use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement.
Deployment Geography:
Global
Release Date:
- Build.Nvidia.com [October 28th, 2025] via nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-VL-12B-V2
- Hugging Face [October 28th, 2025] via nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-VL-12B-V2-BF16
- Hugging Face [October 28th, 2025] via nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-VL-12B-V2-FP8
- Hugging Face [October 28th, 2025] via nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-VL-12B-V2-NVFP4
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL :
The NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL NIM Container includes the following model:
| Model Name & Link | Use Case | How to Pull the Model |
|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano 12B v2 vl https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl | Performs document transcription from images and videos, outputting text in a reading order. | Automatic |
Deployment Details:
Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.
Visit the NVIDIA NIM for VLMs page for release documentation, deployment guides and more.
Container Version(s):
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nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:1.6.0
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nvcr.io/nim/nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:1.5.0
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