Welcome PaliGemma 2 – New vision language models by Google

Welcome to the endless cycle of multimodal hype. PaliGemma 2 is just Google dropping another shiny vision-language model to keep the feature race hot. Don't get excited about the vision aspect; the real bottleneck is alignment and fine-tuning. It's another layer on top of an existing LLM stack.

It's a distraction. We're spending time chasing multimodal features when the core problem—reliable reasoning and grounding—is still unsolved. It's just more data points for the hype machine.