multimodal models
also referred to as: multimodal model
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2026 by Timothée LeCroix · across every show →
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Feb 12, 2026
LeCroix: Small OCR models are often cheaper than large multimodal models
“Sometimes it's a lot cheaper to use a small OCR model to just get the text that you care about and then potentially post-process it or deal with it with another system than to run it through a large multimodal model that will basically do the same thing but at…”