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Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown
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Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits your use case. The post Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown…

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IndustryTechCrunch

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Jul 25, 2026

IndustryTechCrunch

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Jul 24, 2026

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Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing

Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on […] The post Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and…

Jul 24, 2026

IndustryArs Technica

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Jul 24, 2026

IndustryArs Technica

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Jul 24, 2026

IndustryThe Verge

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the app's FAQ page,…

Jul 24, 2026

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