Daniel van Strien

danielvanstrien.bsky.social

01 August 2025 15:20

Many VLM-based OCR models have been released recently. Are they useful for libraries and archives? I made a quick Space to compare VLM OCR with "traditional" OCR using 11k Scottish exam papers from @natlibscot.bsky.social huggingface.co/spaces/davanstrien/ocr-time-capsule

Sebastian Raschka (rasbt)

rasbt.bsky.social

13 March 2025 16:13

Yesterday, Google released Gemma 3, their latest open-weight LLM. Finally, a new addition to the "Big 5" of open-weight models (Gemma, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral). I just went through the Gemma 3 report and experimented a bit with the models, and there are plenty of interesting tidbits:

Thomas Wolf

thomwolf.bsky.social

28 January 2025 22:38

I was briefly chatting on Bloomberg earlier today about DeepSeek and open-source AI youtu.be/wjU2zTbrqQY?...

Sung Kim

sungkim.bsky.social

26 January 2025 21:16

When it rains, it pours. Baichuan releases Baichuan-Omni-1.5 Open-source Omni-modal Foundation Model Supporting Text, Image, Video, and Audio Inputs as Well as Text and Audio Outputs. Both model ( huggingface.co/baichuan-inc... ) and base ( huggingface.co/baichuan-inc... ).

Alexander Doria

dorialexander.bsky.social

13 December 2024 16:06

If you can’t wait for this release we have about 4 million books as part of Common Corpus. In multiple languages. huggingface.co/datasets/Ple... Easier subcollection browsing for cultural heritage monographs on here: huggingface.co/collections/...