Skywork-R1V2-38B

Skywork, a Singaporean startup, has been around for some time as a solid smaller contributor to the open ecosystem, but their pace of (open) model releases picked up recently. In the last episode, we featured their math reasoning model and their video generation model. They also have closed models, such as Mureka for song generation or an agent platform to rival Manus. R1V2 is one of the few open multimodal reasoning models. They use GRPO and Mixed Preference Optimization (MPO) to train the model, rivaling the performance of closed models such as Gemini 2.0 Flash or GPT-4o-mini.