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by fzysingularity 480 days ago
We think VLMs would outperform most OCR+LLM solutions in due time. I get that there’s need for these hybrid solutions today, but we’re comparing 20+ year mature tech vs something that’s roughly 1.5 years old.

Also, VLMs are end-to-end trainable, unlike OCR+LLM solutions (that are trained separately), so it’s clear that these approaches scale much better for domain-specific use cases or verticals.