Moondream 3.1 is a vision language model with a mixture-of-experts architecture (9B total parameters, 2B active). It delivers state-of-the-art visual reasoning and detection while staying fast and cheap to deploy. Skills include query, detect, point, and caption, all native and all returning structured output. For the full story on what's new — including how we trained it and how it holds up on your own tasks — see the release notes. Photon is Moondream's high-performance inference engine. It runs the model locally on NVIDIA GPUs (Ampere or newer) and Apple Silicon Macs, with the same API as Moondream Cloud. No API key is required to run the base model locally. (You'll only need one to run…