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National Institute of Informatics Releases New LLM-jp-4 Models

The National Institute of Informatics has released new domestically-produced LLMs “LLM-jp-4 8B Model” and “LLM-jp-4 32B-A3B Model” under open source licenses, trained on high-quality corpora of approximately 12 trillion tokens. These models reportedly achieve performance exceeding GPT-4o and Qwen3-8B on some benchmarks.

So Miyagawa Adds New Features to NDLOCR-Lite Web AI

So Miyagawa has added functionality incorporating NDL Classical Books OCR-lite to the “NDLOCR-Lite Web AI Ultra Bluepond” he developed, enabling recognition of cursive Japanese characters (kuzushiji). In addition to existing features, it now supports character recognition for classical texts.

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