Tuesday, April 1, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model

Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model
12 by themanmaran | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3 (27B) only scored 42.9%. Particularly surprising given that it's architecture is based on Gemini 2.0 which still tops the accuracy chart. The data set and benchmark runner is fully open source. You can check out the code and reproduction steps here: - https://ift.tt/N6QsBg9... - https://ift.tt/5Bq48eS - https://ift.tt/Pq2s9lo

New top story on Hacker News: Is Doge Securities Fraud?

Is Doge Securities Fraud?
23 by ioblomov | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, March 31, 2025

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free

Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free
16 by murb | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hello! We open sourced all our current MCP servers to platforms like Slack, Google sheets, Linear, Perplexity and will be contributing a few more integrations every day to the project. problems we're hoping to solve: - Many people are creating MCP servers for the same apps. They're scattered across different repos but flavors of the same thing. We're making one standardized mono project for all MCP servers. - Startups are charging for hosting MCP servers. This is blocking tons of people from being able to play around with MCP casually. We're hosting them for free. - Non-technical people should be able to use MCP without needing to learn how to clone a repo and set up a venv. We're trying to enable a one click integration if people want to use the free hosted service. The plan is to keep contributing until we have an MCP server for basically every useful app anyone could want.