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H2O.ai H2OVL Mississippi models Shatter Milestone with Over One Million downloads monthly - Launching Momentum into GTC 2026

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H2O.ai H2OVL Mississippi models Shatter Milestone with Over One Million downloads monthly - Launching Momentum into GTC 2026 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--H2O.ai, a pioneer in sovereign AI and the world’s leading agentic, highly accurate predictive AI company, today announced its openly available H2OVL Mississippi visual-language multimodal models has reached a significant milestone: surpassing over a million downloads monthly — a breakthrough moment arriving just as the global AI community heads into NVIDIA GTC 2026.

The H2OVL Mississippi models, hosted on Hugging Face, have rapidly emerged as one of the most adopted open multimodal OCR‑capable models in the ecosystem, matching leading category performers such as Qwen, DeepSeek, and Google’s Gemma (as publicly benchmarked). This surge in adoption reflects an accelerating movement toward sovereign, open, transparent, and locally deployable AI models — a direction H2O.ai has championed for more than a decade.

“Crossing the million‑download mark is more than a metric — it’s a signal. Sovereign AI is now mainstream,” said the H2O.ai leadership team.

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A New Leader in the AI Race

According to the FutureX February 2026 Overall Leaderboard, H2O.ai’s standout performance where the company leads the field with 59.1%, outperforming every major AI developers, including OpenAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Google, and xAI. This positions H2O.ai as the top‑ranked AI model ecosystem in the world, strengthening the company’s momentum as the industry converges at GTC.

Gartner Recognizes H2O.ai as a Visionary - For the Third Consecutive Year

Adding to the excitement, Gartner has recognized H2O.ai as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms for the third year in a row, noting the company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Gartner highlights H2O.ai’s strengths in:

This repeated recognition reinforces H2O.ai’s leadership in secure, enterprise‑grade, mission‑aligned AI.

About H2O.ai

Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI. As the world’s leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. With a focus on Sovereign AI—secure, compliant, and infrastructure-flexible deployments—H2O.ai delivers solutions that align with the highest standards of data privacy and control.

Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Certis, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH.

H2O.ai partners include NVIDIA, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VAST Data and MinIO. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, H2O.ai aims to co-create valuable AI applications for all users.

H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures and New York Life.

For more information, visit www.h2o.ai.