Mistral OCR 4 extracts text from PDFs, DOCs and more while also returning bounding boxes, block types and per-word confidence. It supports 170 languages, runs in a single container for self-hosted deployments, and outperforms rivals on human and automated benchmarks.

Google’s new Gemini 3.5 Live Translate model converts speech to speech in real time across more than 70 languages, preserving speakers’ intonation, pacing and pitch. It streams audio continuously with minimal delay and is available via the Gemini Live API, Google Meet preview, and Google Translate apps. TAGS: live-translation, speech-translation, multilingual, real-time-ai, gemini-models

Chandra OCR 2, a 4 billion-parameter model from Datalab, outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini on AllenAI’s olmOCR benchmark and a 90-language test while halving the model size. It preserves layout, reads complex tables and math notation, converts diagrams to Mermaid, and runs at two pages per second on an NVIDIA H100. The code is Apache 2.0 but the model weights use an OpenRAIL-M license with commercial restrictions.