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Re: Mistral OCR 4

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Post by fmajid » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:58 AM UTC

neuronic wrote: post #99

rjzzleep wrote: post #40

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Unfortunately Europeans are terrible customers for making money. They ask a lot of questions and they're very stingy with their wallets. Americans on the other hand ...

This is absolutely not why there are no leading AI, other important silicon tech, or relevant space companies in Europe. To some degree they exist but are all B-Tier in comparison to US/China. You'd be surprised just how lose money can sit in Europe, I guess. Just not the way it needs to be for this. The financial structure of the EU is nowhere close to enabling these capital devouring endeavors based on lofty future…

ASML is based in Amsterdam, and DeepMind in London.

Re: Mistral OCR 4

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Post by sreekanth850 » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:54 PM UTC

deivid wrote: post #129

sreekanth850 wrote: post #67

Tested with Malayalam, normal handwriting got accurate but a slight different style got detected as kannada. Have samples if required, which sarvam got done with 99% accuracy leaving one text error.

I am making (open) finetunes for malayalam and kannada (and bengali, gujarati, hebrew), and need someone to transcribe a few images for me. Could you contact me if you are interested in helping?

I'm not an expert in fine tuning but i can obviously help if it falls under my expertise. You can shoot an email with my username and Gmail.

Re: Mistral OCR 4

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Post by port11 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

rjzzleep wrote: post #140

port11 wrote: post #132

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Have you raised venture capital? I have. It’s fine. You don’t get US-level (or even Israel/China/Singapore) seeds, but often you get a matching public investment. Germany has better matching funds, but we did alright in Belgium, and previously Portugal. Let’s stop pretending the EU can ‘fix’ this. It’s cultural, we’re simply not risk takers (on average) because a “normal” job comes with great benefits. Most of us don…

Funny you should bring up Germany, since it's an a place where a monopoly class of Notary's gets to suck you dry every time you add a new investor to your business in a reading session where the only value he brings to the table is to read the whole thing for you.

Same as elsewhere. The notary fees in Belgium are why we deferred changing the cap table every time it needed doing, ultimately making some of the partners… not have any actual shares because it was too late. Notaries are like this everywhere, AFAIK.