Release: v5.21.0
Release v5.21.0 New Model additions MiniCPM-OCR MiniCPM-OCR is a document-understanding model from OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V family. It keeps the MiniCPM-V 4.6 architecture, which pairs a SigLIP vision encoder and a window-attention merger with a Qwen3.5 language model. It is specialized for reading text-dense images such as scanned pages, screenshots, receipts and tables. Links: Documentation | Paper Feat test ( #49920 ) by @guarin in #49920 Flint Flint is Recursive's mixture-of-experts language mode
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Source account: Release v5.21.0 New Model additions MiniCPM-OCR MiniCPM-OCR is a document-understanding model from OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V family. It keeps the MiniCPM-V 4.6 architecture, which pairs a SigLIP vision encoder and a window-attention merger with a Qwen3.5 language model. It is specialized for reading text-dense images such as scanned pages, screenshots, receipts and tables. Links: Documentation | Paper Feat test ( #49920 ) by @guarin in #49920 Flint Flint is Recursive's mixture-of-experts language mode
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