RedNote

The beloved dots.ocr model has been updated and supports SVG outputs. However, on top of the general MIT license, the model comes with additional usage restrictions, just like its predecessor.

RedNote, the second: This time with a VLM building on top of DeepSeek V3.

RedNote (the Chinese version of Instagram) continues to release open models. RedNote is a somewhat surprising participant in the AI space, but goes to show how pervasive open model releases are in China. This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model, building on top of Qwen3 1.7B, is not only relatively small (compared to other models in the 7-8B range), but it is also really good! There are multiple people independently reporting about its performance and being impressed by it. Also, check out this Twitter thread by William about his experience with fine-tuning the model.

The Chinese RedNote (their version of Instagram) also joined the open-source community. The most notable aspect of this release is the absence of synthetic data for the training process. As with other Chinese models, it is released under the MIT license.