This is a response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605

A fun threat to read for the current hype cycle.

You can tell who is working in the field by the fact they don't use VLMs for OCR and who isn't because they think it's a solved problem.

A question to the authors.

Do you have resources to train any VLMs from scratch? They aren't quite the bests the sota LLMs are and I think they can be made a lot more useful with:

1). Better training data.

2). Larger vision parts of the model.

In short: 2d attention is not something that anyone's doing at scale - that I know of - and is a no brainer for understanding images.