Moondream is a cutting-edge Vision Language Model (VLM) developed by M87 Labs, an AI company founded in 2024 by Jay and Vik in Seattle. Leveraging over eight years of collaboration at AWS, the founders have created Moondream to push the boundaries of computer vision technology. Backed by investors such as Felicis, the M12 GitHub-Microsoft fund, and Ascend, Moondream aims to make visual intelligence accessible to everyone.