DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b  —  The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model

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