diff --git a/docs/source/openvino/models.mdx b/docs/source/openvino/models.mdx
index ef5bd128e1..e1c8c7864e 100644
--- a/docs/source/openvino/models.mdx
+++ b/docs/source/openvino/models.mdx
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Here is the list of the supported architectures :
 - Llava
 - Llava-Next
 - M2-M100
+- MAIRA-2
 - MBart
 - MPNet
 - MPT
diff --git a/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py b/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
index 8cb54addf2..6807644b9e 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/openvino/model_configs.py
@@ -1488,6 +1488,7 @@ def __init__(
         float_dtype: str = "fp32",
         behavior: LlavaConfigBehavior = LlavaConfigBehavior.VISION_EMBEDDINGS,
         preprocessors: Optional[List[Any]] = None,
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         super().__init__(
             config=config,
@@ -1584,6 +1585,14 @@ class LlavaNextOpenVINOConfig(LlavaOpenVINOConfig):
     MIN_TRANSFORMERS_VERSION = version.parse("4.40.0")
 
 
+@register_in_tasks_manager(
+    "maira2", *["image-text-to-text", "text-generation", "text-generation-with-past"], library_name="transformers"
+)
+class MairaOpenVINOConfig(LlavaOpenVINOConfig):
+    MIN_TRANSFORMERS_VERSION = version.parse("4.46.0")
+    SUPPORTS_PAST = True
+
+
 class InternVLChatConfigBehavior(str, enum.Enum):
     LANGUAGE = "language"
     VISION_EMBEDDINGS = "vision_embeddings"
diff --git a/optimum/exporters/openvino/utils.py b/optimum/exporters/openvino/utils.py
index e00708c8eb..c31026e5f9 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/openvino/utils.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/openvino/utils.py
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ def get_submodels(model):
     "llava-next",
     "llava-qwen2",
     "internvl-chat",
+    "maira2",
     "minicpmv",
     "phi3-v",
     "qwen2-vl",
diff --git a/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_visual_language.py b/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_visual_language.py
index 4b2c5ee031..5ba4eec864 100644
--- a/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_visual_language.py
+++ b/optimum/intel/openvino/modeling_visual_language.py
@@ -2331,11 +2331,33 @@ def preprocess_inputs(
         return inputs
 
 
+class _OVMaira2ForCausalLM(_OVLlavaForCausalLM):
+    @staticmethod
+    def preprocess_inputs(
+        text: str,
+        image: Optional["Image"] = None,
+        processor: Optional[AutoImageProcessor] = None,
+        tokenizer: Optional[PreTrainedTokenizer] = None,
+        config: Optional[PretrainedConfig] = None,
+    ):
+        if processor is None:
+            raise ValueError("processor is required")
+        if image is None:
+            return processor(text=text, return_tensors="pt")
+        processed_inputs = processor.format_and_preprocess_phrase_grounding_input(
+            frontal_image=image,
+            phrase=text,
+            return_tensors="pt",
+        )
+        return processed_inputs
+
+
 MODEL_TYPE_TO_CLS_MAPPING = {
     "llava": _OVLlavaForCausalLM,
     "llava_next": _OVLlavaNextForCausalLM,
     "minicpmv": _OVMiniCPMVForCausalLM,
     "llava-qwen2": _OVNanoLlavaForCausalLM,
+    "maira2": _OVMaira2ForCausalLM,
     "phi3_v": _OVPhi3VisionForCausalLM,
     "internvl_chat": _OVInternVLForCausalLM,
     "qwen2_vl": _OVQwen2VLForCausalLM,
diff --git a/tests/openvino/test_modeling.py b/tests/openvino/test_modeling.py
index 8ca72d06c2..aa276673b5 100644
--- a/tests/openvino/test_modeling.py
+++ b/tests/openvino/test_modeling.py
@@ -2110,9 +2110,9 @@ class OVModelForVisualCausalLMIntegrationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     if is_transformers_version(">=", "4.40.0"):
         SUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES += ["llava_next", "nanollava"]
     if is_transformers_version(">=", "4.45.0"):
-        SUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES += ["minicpmv", "internvl2", "phi3_v", "qwen2_vl"]
+        SUPPORTED_ARCHITECTURES += ["minicpmv", "internvl2", "phi3_v", "qwen2_vl", "maira2"]
     TASK = "image-text-to-text"
-    REMOTE_CODE_MODELS = ["internvl2", "minicpmv", "nanollava", "phi3_v"]
+    REMOTE_CODE_MODELS = ["internvl2", "minicpmv", "nanollava", "phi3_v", "maira2"]
 
     IMAGE = Image.open(
         requests.get(
@@ -2192,7 +2192,7 @@ def test_compare_to_transformers(self, model_arch):
             with torch.no_grad():
                 transformers_outputs = transformers_model(**transformers_inputs)
             self.assertTrue(
-                torch.allclose(ov_outputs.logits, transformers_outputs.logits, atol=1e-4),
+                torch.allclose(ov_outputs.logits, transformers_outputs.logits, atol=4e-3),
                 f"Max abs diff {(torch.abs(ov_outputs.logits - transformers_outputs.logits).max())}",
             )
 
diff --git a/tests/openvino/utils_tests.py b/tests/openvino/utils_tests.py
index e4c2ede8e9..ac39b065ca 100644
--- a/tests/openvino/utils_tests.py
+++ b/tests/openvino/utils_tests.py
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
     "opt": "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-OPTModel",
     "opt125m": "facebook/opt-125m",
     "opt_gptq": "ybelkada/opt-125m-gptq-4bit",
+    "maira2": "katuni4ka/tiny-random-maira2",
     "marian": "sshleifer/tiny-marian-en-de",
     "mbart": "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-mbart",
     "minicpm": "katuni4ka/tiny-random-minicpm",