Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have introduced Pangea-7B, a fully open multilingual multimodal large language model (LLM) capable of understanding and responding in 39 languages. The model has been trained on a diverse dataset consisting of 6 million multilingual multimodal instruction tuning data, enabling it to outperform existing open-source multimodal LLMs, including notable models such as Llama-3.2-Vision, Molmo, and LlavaOneVision. Pangea-7B aims to bridge linguistic and cultural gaps in visual understanding, marking a significant advancement in inclusive artificial intelligence and language diversity.