# NVIDIA's New 3B VLM Pinpoints Objects in Images

> The new 3-billion-parameter model, based on the company's Eagle architecture, is designed for high-precision visual grounding tasks.

Published by The Open Weights on Mar 2, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/locateanything-3b-kowy

## Key facts

- Company: NVIDIA
- Model: LocateAnything-3B
- Version: 3B
- Category: Vision-Language
- Modalities: Vision-Language
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Parameters: 3B
- Context window: 33K tokens
- Architecture: LocateAnythingForConditionalGeneration
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 7.7 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-03-02
- Last verified: 2026-07-18
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/locateanything-3b-kowy

NVIDIA has introduced LocateAnything-3B, a new vision-language model designed to precisely identify and outline objects in an image based on a text prompt. This specialized 3-billion-parameter model excels at visual grounding, which connects natural language descriptions to specific pixel regions in a picture.

Built upon the foundation of NVIDIA's Eagle architecture, LocateAnything-3B combines a powerful vision encoder with a language model. This dual structure enables it to interpret complex visual scenes and understand user queries to answer the question, "Where is the object I'm describing?" with a high degree of accuracy.

## Potential Applications

The ability to precisely locate objects opens up possibilities for a range of applications. Key use cases for this technology include:

*   **Interactive Photo Editing:** Allowing users to select complex objects with simple text commands like "select the red sports car."
*   **Robotics and Automation:** Providing visual intelligence for robots to identify and interact with specific items in their environment.
*   **Accessibility Tools:** Enhancing systems that describe image content for visually impaired users by specifying where objects are located.

The model and its weights are now [available on the Hugging Face Hub](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B). According to its model card, LocateAnything-3B is released for non-commercial research purposes only, an important consideration for developers exploring its capabilities.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B)

## Sources

- [nvidia/LocateAnything-3B](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/LocateAnything-3B) — Hugging Face, Mar 2, 2026

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