LightOnOCR-2: tiny 1B open model beats rivals 9x its size

France's LightOn released LightOnOCR-2, a 1B-parameter Apache 2.0 OCR model that outperforms rivals 9x its size, processing 490k pages daily at under a cent per thousand pages.

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-09 · 2 related posts

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