A peanut-sized Chinese model just dethroned Gemini at reading... documents. GLM-OCR is a 0.9B parameter vision-language model. It scores 94.62 on OmniDocBench V1.5, ranking #1 overall. For context, it outperforms models 100x its size. 100% open-source. It works in two stages. 1. A layout engine detects every region in a document. 2. Each region gets read in parallel. The model predicts multiple tokens per step instead of one. That's what makes it so fast at small size. It handles things most OCR tools struggle with: > Complex tables and nested layouts > Handwritten text and stamps > Math formulas and code blocks > Mixed image-and-text documents You can run it locally through Ollama. It fits on edge devices with limited compute. Every expensive OCR API just got a free competitor.show more

Fine-tune DeepSeek-OCR on your own language! (100% local) DeepSeek-OCR... is a 3B-parameter vision model that achieves 97% precision while using 10× fewer vision tokens than text-based LLMs. It handles tables, papers, and handwriting without killing your GPU or budget. Why it matters: Most vision models treat documents as massive sequences of tokens, making long-context processing expensive and slow. DeepSeek-OCR uses context optical compression to convert 2D layouts into vision tokens, enabling efficient processing of complex documents. The best part? You can easily fine-tune it for your specific use case on a single GPU. I used Unsloth to run this experiment on Persian text and saw an 88.26% improvement in character error rate. ↳ Base model: 149% character error rate (CER) ↳ Fine-tuned model: 60% CER (57% more accurate) ↳ Training time: 60 steps on a single GPU Persian was just the test case. You can swap in your own dataset for any language, document type, or specific domain you're working with. I've shared the complete guide in the next tweet - all the code, notebooks, and environment setup ready to run with a single click. Everything is 100% open-source!show more

Mistral OCR 4 turned a handwritten calculus exam into... clean LaTeX! We gave it a photo of a hand-written exam page. The model read the handwriting and rebuilt every formula into structured digital text Output: Time: 5.1s · Cost: $0.09 Formulas came through exactly right - the hard part was nailed. The graph, unfortunately, it didn’t redraw. But that’s the telling part: most OCR tools just dump the text and quietly drop the figure. OCR 4 caught the plot, boxed it, and tagged it as a chart. It doesn’t get redrawn, but it gets read and accounted forshow more

Announcing llama-ocr – a free + open source OCR... tool! It takes documents (images for now) & outputs markdown, and does really well for complex receipts, PDFs with tables/charts, ect... Powered by Llama 3.2 vision on Together AI & available on npm today!show more

Unlimited-OCR is a 3B parameter model that parses entire... 100-page PDFs in one shot — no page chunking, no lost context. +⁠32K context window, reads the whole document in a single pass +⁠93% on standard parsing benchmarks, +6 over baseline +⁠Under 0.11 error rate past page 40 — where every other OCR tool falls apart ⁠+Multilingual out of the box, runs locally via Transformers, Ollama, llama.cpp, Docker +⁠Textract, Google Vision, and Azure Doc Intelligence charge $1.50–$15 per 1,000 pages 1.9M downloads on HuggingFace and most people have never heard of it. This runs on your machine. For free. Forever. Model link:show more

China open-sourced a peanut-sized OCR that parses entire 100-page... PDFs in one shot.. It's called Unlimited-OCR. Only 3B params. Runs locally. Every other OCR tool chops your doc into pages and loses the thread. this one reads the whole thing in a single pass. → One-shot "long-horizon" parsing (32K context window) → Multilingual, out of the box → 93% on the standard parsing benchmark (+6 over baseline) → <0.11 error rate past 40 pages → Runs 100% locally on your own hardware → Works with Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, Docker, Ollama, llama.cpp Traditional cloud OCR (Textract, Google Vision, Azure Doc Intelligence) costs $1.50–$15 per 1,000 pages. This runs on your machine. For free. Forever. Baidu built it explicitly to push DeepSeek-OCR one step further. Already at 1.9M downloads on Hugging Face and most people have no idea it exists yet. 100% open source.show more

ByteDance just dropped an OCR model that reads documents... just like humans. This 0.3B model analyzes page layout first, then parses elements in parallel. 100% open-source.show more

🚨 CHINA JUST OPEN SOURCED AN OCR THAT EATS... 100 PAGE PDFS IN ONE PASS It’s called Unlimited OCR. Only 3B params. Runs locally. Every other OCR tool chops your doc into pages and loses the thread. This one reads the whole thing in one continuous pass. → One shot full context parsing (32K context window) → Multilingual out of the box → 93% on the standard parsing benchmark (6 points over baseline) → Under 0.11 error rate past 40 pages → Runs 100% locally on your own hardware → Works with Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, Docker, Ollama, llama.cpp Traditional cloud OCR (Textract, Google Vision, Azure Doc Intelligence) costs $1.50 to $15 per 1,000 pages. This runs on your machine. For free. Forever. Baidu built it explicitly to push DeepSeek OCR one step further. Already at 1.9M downloads on Hugging Face and most people have no idea it exists yet. 100% open source.show more

Everyone is sleeping on this new OCR model! Datalab's... Chandra topped independent benchmarks and beat the previous best dots-ocr. - Supports 40+ languages - Extracts complex texts, tables, formulas easily I tested on Ramanujan's handwritten letter from 1913. 100% open-source.show more

New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early... access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the model, and open source matters here because you can inspect the loop, run it on your own infrastructure, and swap to the latest or cheaper models. TrueForge handles the runtime work that makes an agent reliable. It drives the tool-calling loop, manages context, coordinates subagents, and executes code in a sandbox, with any model you choose. Every tool call re-sends the growing context to the model, so in practice the harness controls most of what an agent costs to run. A few things stood out from my testing and their published benchmarks. Vendor-Neutral by design. It runs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models alongside open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek. Model routing is a setting, and you can send each task to the model that fits it. On a 14-task enterprise agent benchmark, it matched the accuracy of Claude Managed Agents running the same Opus 4.8 model at roughly 30% lower cost per run (3.8M tokens vs 10M for the same answers). Routing the same tasks to GLM-5.2 held accuracy and brought cost down by about 75%, around $3 per run instead of $12. Fully self-hosted and Open Source (MIT License). I had it running locally with one command, with sandboxed code execution working out of the box. It's time to own your agent harness. Thanks to TrueFoundry for partnering on this post.show more

Nace shows Drex playing a strategy game. i gave... it a harder opponent: my timeline Spoiler Guard sends each post to the new decision model and blurs the spoilers, 352 post checked in one session with sub-second calls → 128K context window, per Nace the first and only decision model at that size → #1 on the Decision Index, a Jev rival for $0.04 per 1M input tokens → no text generated, just a probability per post try it with 250M free tokens from Nace AI:show more

We took a 30B model and split it in... two to write tokens in parallel instead of one at a time. Introducing Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower: a diffusion language model from NVIDIA Research adapted from Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B. Here’s how it works: one half holds the context, the other writes the tokens, with both reusing the pretrained model instead of training a new one from scratch. We found it kept 98.7% of the original model’s quality at 2.42× faster generation.show more

🔥 GLM-5.3-Flash Hits #1 on 🐮 GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha)... is now the most-used and most popular model on with cumulative token throughput surpassing 2.41 trillion tokens. As the first native omni-modal model in the GLM-5 series, it packs 320B total parameters, with 18B active, and features a hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture with a 1M-token context window. The result: lightning-fast responses, powerful reasoning, and outstanding cost efficiency. 🎁 Still 100% FREE on From high-frequency API calls and coding to complex Agents and long-document processing, jump in and experience the #1 model on for yourself! 👉 Try it free now:show more

Today Meta released "Code Llama", a large language model... fine-tuned for coding tasks. It's publicly available and can be used for commercial use! It outperforms GPT 3.5 and you can even run it locally on your Macbook using Ollama.show more

NVIDIA just made AI detect objects 10x faster by... deleting one step. It's called LocateAnything, and it removes the biggest bottleneck no one else was fixing in vision-language models. Normally a model builds each bounding box one coordinate token at a time. 100 objects means thousands of tokens before an answer. NVIDIA scrapped that: their Parallel Box Decoding predicts the whole box in a single forward pass, as one atomic unit. → 12.7 boxes/sec on one H100 → 10x faster than Qwen3-VL → +3.8% F1 on LVIS, accuracy up, not down → 3B params, runs on one consumer GPU Treating the box as one unit keeps its coordinates tied together, which is why accuracy climbed instead of falling. One model handles detection, GUI grounding, OCR, and document understanding, ready for computer-use agents, robotics, and document pipelines. 100% open source, weights, code, demo, and paper all live.show more

6. Apple Notes It's fast, syncs perfectly, and does... EXACTLY what it needs to. The OCR for handwritten notes is magic, and the way you can scan documents now makes it indispensable. After trying Notion and Obsidian, I'm back to Apple Notes.show more

JUST IN: Meta AI introduces Voicebox, an all-in-one generative... speech model. Voicebox is an impressive breakthrough! It could do for speech what other models like GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion have done for text and images. Some key details: - Voicebox can synthesize speech across 6 languages - It's a general-purpose model that can perform tasks it wasn't trained on. It can perform noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and more - Supports in-context text-to-speech synthesis and cross-lingual style transfer - It's 20x faster than current models and outperforms single-purpose models through in-context learning paper: blog:show more

Claude cannot watch a YouTube video, Instagram reel, Tiktok,... or local file video. Same problem is with ChatGPT and Gemini. It reads the transcript and pretends it did. This FREE AI TOOL fixes this issue It extracts only the important frames, transcribes the audio, and hands Claude a clean folder it can genuinely read and understand. No uploading to a server. Runs entirely on your machine. Here is what makes it smarter than everything else doing this: → Detects scene changes instead of grabbing one frame per second like every other tool → Removes near-duplicate frames so Claude is not reading the same shot 40 times → Handles A-B-A cuts, if a shot already appeared, it does not send it again → A 10-minute static screencast collapses to 1 frame instead of 600 → A fast-cut reel catches every visual change instead of missing frames between samples → Transcribes audio with Whisper and auto-detects the language → Saves the full soundtrack so audio models can actually hear it too → Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini The result: fewer frames, cheaper context, better understanding. Claude actually sees the video instead of guessing from a transcript.show more

Cline Desktop just launched. An open-source workspace for open-weight... models 🤯 > Import tasks from other coding agents > Run agents in parallel > Schedule tasks to run on their own Free models built in: DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Laguna S 2.1. I had early access and I can assure you it feels incredible. Pick your model and provider, and run it. 100% open source.show more

You can now use GPT 5.5, Gemini 3.7 Flash,... Kimi K3 and 47 other AI models completely free😱 No subscription. No credit card. Even the API usage costs $0. AIHubMix just opened a free catalog with 50 AI models. Some of the available models: • Ox Alpha • Gemini 3.7 Flash • GLM 5.2 • Kimi K3 • MiniMax M3 • GPT 5.5 • 40+ more And you don’t need separate API keys for each model. Setup takes 2 minutes: > Step 1: Go to > Create an account using your email or OAuth. No card needed. Step 2: Create one API key > The same key works with every free and paid model. Step 3: Add it to any OpenAI-compatible tool Base URL: Then choose any model ending in -free, such as: coding-glm-5.2-free gpt-5.5-free That’s it. One API key. 50 AI models. $0 for both input and output. Save this. You might need a free multi-model setup later.show more

Something just launched that makes VS Code feel ancient.... And im all in for it: Cline Desktop app, an open-source app for open-weight models (and you know how much i love open source) brings its coding agent into a standalone Cline Desktop app for Mac + Windows. Just open a project and tell it what you want to change. No need to open VS Code first. In Cline's demo, it adds priority filters to a task board, works through the code and runs the build. Glad to see the model choice stays open, too. You can bring your own API keys, use supported open-weight models and even switch models halfway through a project!show more