diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f461988f1..365f3d759 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ VLMEvalKit will use a **judge LLM** to extract answer from the output if you set
 
 **Supported PyTorch / HF Models**
 
-| [**IDEFICS-[9B/80B/v2-8B]-Instruct**](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics-9b-instruct)🎞️🚅 | [**InstructBLIP-[7B/13B]**](https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS/blob/main/projects/instructblip/README.md) | [**LLaVA-[v1-7B/v1.5-7B/v1.5-13B]**](https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA) | [**MiniGPT-4-[v1-7B/v1-13B/v2-7B]**](https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/MiniGPT-4) |
+| [**IDEFICS-[9B/80B/v2-8B/v3-8B]-Instruct**](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics-9b-instruct)🚅🎞️  | [**InstructBLIP-[7B/13B]**](https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS/blob/main/projects/instructblip/README.md) | [**LLaVA-[v1-7B/v1.5-7B/v1.5-13B]**](https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA) | [**MiniGPT-4-[v1-7B/v1-13B/v2-7B]**](https://github.com/Vision-CAIR/MiniGPT-4) |
 | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| [**mPLUG-Owl2**](https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-Owl/tree/main/mPLUG-Owl2)🎞️ | [**OpenFlamingo-v2**](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_flamingo)🎞️ | [**PandaGPT-13B**](https://github.com/yxuansu/PandaGPT)      | [**Qwen-VL**](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL)🎞️🚅, [**Qwen-VL-Chat**](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat)🎞️**🚅** |
+| [**mPLUG-Owl2**](https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-Owl/tree/main/mPLUG-Owl2)🎞️ | [**OpenFlamingo-v2**](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_flamingo)🎞️ | [**PandaGPT-13B**](https://github.com/yxuansu/PandaGPT)      | [**Qwen-VL**](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL)🚅🎞️ , [**Qwen-VL-Chat**](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat)🚅🎞️ |
 | [**VisualGLM-6B**](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/visualglm-6b)🚅 | [**InternLM-XComposer-[1/2]**](https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm-xcomposer-7b)🚅 | [**ShareGPT4V-[7B/13B]**](https://sharegpt4v.github.io)🚅     | [**TransCore-M**](https://github.com/PCIResearch/TransCore-M) |
 | [**LLaVA (XTuner)**](https://huggingface.co/xtuner/llava-internlm-7b)🚅 | [**CogVLM-[Chat/Llama3]**](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/cogvlm-chat-hf)🚅 | [**ShareCaptioner**](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Lin-Chen/Share-Captioner)🚅 | [**CogVLM-Grounding-Generalist**](https://huggingface.co/THUDM/cogvlm-grounding-generalist-hf)🚅 |
 | [**Monkey**](https://github.com/Yuliang-Liu/Monkey)🚅, [**Monkey-Chat**](https://github.com/Yuliang-Liu/Monkey)🚅 | [**EMU2-Chat**](https://github.com/baaivision/Emu)🚅🎞️         | [**Yi-VL-[6B/34B]**](https://huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-VL-6B)  | [**MMAlaya**](https://huggingface.co/DataCanvas/MMAlaya)🚅    |
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Note that some VLMs may not be able to run under certain transformer versions, w
 - **Please use** `transformers==4.33.0` **for**: `Qwen series`, `Monkey series`, `InternLM-XComposer Series`, `mPLUG-Owl2`, `OpenFlamingo v2`, `IDEFICS series`, `VisualGLM`, `MMAlaya`, `ShareCaptioner`, `MiniGPT-4 series`, `InstructBLIP series`, `PandaGPT`, `VXVERSE`, `GLM-4v-9B`.
 - **Please use** `transformers==4.37.0` **for**: `LLaVA series`, `ShareGPT4V series`, `TransCore-M`, `LLaVA (XTuner)`, `CogVLM Series`, `EMU2 Series`, `Yi-VL Series`, `MiniCPM-[V1/V2]`, `OmniLMM-12B`, `DeepSeek-VL series`, `InternVL series`, `Cambrian Series`, `VILA Series`, `Llama-3-MixSenseV1_1`, `Parrot-7B`.
 - **Please use** `transformers==4.40.0` **for**: `IDEFICS2`, `Bunny-Llama3`, `MiniCPM-Llama3-V2.5`, `360VL-70B`, `Phi-3-Vision`, `WeMM`.
-- **Please use** `transformers==latest` **for**: `LLaVA-Next series`, `PaliGemma-3B`, `Chameleon series`, `Video-LLaVA-7B-HF`, `Ovis series`, `Mantis series`, `MiniCPM-V2.6`, `OmChat-v2.0-13B-sinlge-beta`.
+- **Please use** `transformers==latest` **for**: `LLaVA-Next series`, `PaliGemma-3B`, `Chameleon series`, `Video-LLaVA-7B-HF`, `Ovis series`, `Mantis series`, `MiniCPM-V2.6`, `OmChat-v2.0-13B-sinlge-beta`, `Idefics-3`.
 
 ```python
 # Demo
diff --git a/vlmeval/config.py b/vlmeval/config.py
index 8907a345e..d79cf27b0 100644
--- a/vlmeval/config.py
+++ b/vlmeval/config.py
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@
     'idefics_9b_instruct': partial(IDEFICS, model_path='HuggingFaceM4/idefics-9b-instruct'),
     'idefics_80b_instruct': partial(IDEFICS, model_path='HuggingFaceM4/idefics-80b-instruct'),
     'idefics2_8b': partial(IDEFICS2, model_path='HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b'),
+
+    # Idefics3 follows Idefics2 Pattern
+    'Idefics3-8B-Llama3': partial(IDEFICS2, model_path='HuggingFaceM4/Idefics3-8B-Llama3'),
+
 }
 
 instructblip_series = {
diff --git a/vlmeval/vlm/idefics.py b/vlmeval/vlm/idefics.py
index f0ce8e12f..f922508b8 100644
--- a/vlmeval/vlm/idefics.py
+++ b/vlmeval/vlm/idefics.py
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ class IDEFICS2(BaseModel):
     def __init__(self, model_path='HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b', **kwargs):
         assert model_path is not None
         self.model_path = model_path
+        if 'Idefics3' in self.model_path.lower():
+            warnings.warn('Install transfomers from source: PR https://github.com/open-compass/VLMEvalKit/pull/379')
+            warnings.warn('Reference: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/Idefics3-8B-Llama3')
         self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_path)
         self.model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
             model_path,