[X]score: 0.40
Marlin-2B: Apache 2.0 Video VLM with Timestamped Event Captioning
May 26, 2026
Marlin-2B is a 2B-parameter open video-language model (Apache 2.0) that captions video clips into timestamped events and localizes natural-language queries to specific moments in video.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can use Marlin-2B under Apache 2.0 to add temporal video understanding — timestamped captions and moment retrieval — to products without licensing friction.
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researcherWorth watching as a small-scale open baseline for temporal video grounding and dense video captioning tasks.