What can you build with small multimodal models beyond demos?

Lost & Found Desk built by developer @JacobLinCool turns MiniCPM into an AI-powered lost & found workflow — from understanding item photos to helping people describe, match, and recover what they lost. 🔍

Powered by MiniCPM-V 4.6 and MiniCPM5-1B, this project enables:

📸 MiniCPM-V 4.6 to generate searchable descriptions from photos of found items taken by staff. 🌍 MiniCPM5-1B to understand multilingual natural language descriptions from users and match them with lost item records.

By combining visual understanding and language reasoning, MiniCPM helps make lost-and-found services smarter, faster, and more accessible.

🔗 Project: https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/lost-found-desk

🤗 Models: MiniCPM-V 4.6: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6 MiniCPM5-1B: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B