This Week I Learned - Week 43, 2026
This Week I Learned - * Indra OCR 1.1 is a 1M param model from Datalab that runs on CPU, 15x faster than Tesseract and much more accurate. 1M param OCR model - runs on CPU, 15x faster than tesseract, close to 1B+ param models in accuracy * Coding is the mother of all AI use cases with 90% of AI spends in most enterprises going to AI coding. Via AI lets developers use what they are using but cuts the costs by 25% - 40%. - Rajan Anandan * Via is a middleware that sits between a CLI / IDE and an LLM, installs in 10 seconds * AI models learn patterns from data during training. Their trained parameters, called weights, are numerical values that help fix how the models process inputs and generate responses. Think of an AI model as a chef who learnt from thousands of recipes. During training, the model learns patterns that help it decide what ingredients to combine and in what proportions to make a certain dish. Its weights shape these decisions. Making the weights av...
