Artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face has recently launched an open-source multimodal AI model named IDEFIX. IDEFIX is capable of processing both image and text inputs and generating coherent text outputs. Built on the visual language model Flamingo, IDEFIX was trained using a variety of open datasets including Wikipedia, public multimodal datasets, and LAION. Compared to proprietary models, IDEFIX has demonstrated exceptional performance in various image-text comprehension evaluations. This marks a significant advancement in open-source multimodal AI models.