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How a small model outperformed GPT-5 and Claude Opus at Portuguese OCR

Dharma AI's specialized Dharma-OCR model (3B parameters) outpaced Claude Opus, Gemini, and GPT-5 in Portuguese text recognition. It achieved higher accuracy, pr

How a small model outperformed GPT-5 and Claude Opus at Portuguese OCR
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Dharma AI's specialized Dharma-OCR model (3B parameters) outpaced Claude Opus, Gemini, and GPT-5 in Portuguese text recognition. It achieved higher accuracy, produced fewer text distortions, and cost 52x less. Conclusion: for narrow tasks, specialization trumps scale.

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