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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral OCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/mistral-ocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral OCR Feedly Summary: Mistral OCR New closed-source specialist OCR model by Mistral – you can feed it images or a PDF and it produces Markdown with optional embedded images. It’s available via their API, or it’s “available to self-host on a selective basis" for people with…

  • Hacker News: Mistral OCR

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    Source URL: https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr Source: Hacker News Title: Mistral OCR Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Mistral OCR, an advanced Optical Character Recognition API designed for comprehensive document understanding, emphasizing its competitive advantages in terms of speed, multilingual capabilities, and security in sensitive use cases. This innovation is relevant for…

  • Cloud Blog: Use Gemini 2.0 to speed up document extraction and lower costs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/use-gemini-2-0-to-speed-up-data-processing/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Use Gemini 2.0 to speed up document extraction and lower costs Feedly Summary: A few weeks ago, Google DeepMind released Gemini 2.0 for everyone, including Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 2.0 Pro (Experimental). All models support up to at least 1 million input tokens, which…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/1/llm-anthropic/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic #24: Use new URL parameter to send attachments Anthropic released a neat quality of life improvement today. Alex Albert: We’ve added the ability to specify a public facing URL as the source for an image…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas Feedly Summary: LLM 0.23 is out today, and the signature feature is support for schemas – a new way of providing structured output from a model that matches a specification provided by the user. I’ve also upgraded both…

  • Hacker News: Putting Andrew Ng’s OCR models to the test

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    Source URL: https://www.runpulse.com/blog/putting-andrew-ngs-ocr-models-to-the-test Source: Hacker News Title: Putting Andrew Ng’s OCR models to the test Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of a new document extraction service by Andrew Ng, highlighting significant challenges with accuracy in processing complex financial statements using current LLM-based models. These challenges underscore…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: olmOCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/26/olmocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: olmOCR Feedly Summary: olmOCR New from Ai2 – olmOCR is “an open-source tool designed for high-throughput conversion of PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving natural reading order". At its core is allenai/olmOCR-7B-0225-preview, a Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct variant trained on ~250,000 pages of diverse PDF content (both…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Cloud Blog: How to use gen AI for better data schema handling, data quality, and data generation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-gemini-in-bigquery-helps-with-data-engineering-tasks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to use gen AI for better data schema handling, data quality, and data generation Feedly Summary: In the realm of data engineering, generative AI models are quietly revolutionizing how we handle, process, and ultimately utilize data. For example, large language models (LLMs) can help with data schema…