Run open-weight OCR, VLM and vision models behind one API

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Run open-weight OCR, VLM and vision models behind one API is active in the show hn launch space.

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Hey HN. We built an openai-compatible API for running open-weight VLMs, OCR VLMs and ViT-based vision models.The motivation was mostly frustration when running these models in production and discovering all the details around serving VLMs, especially around visual accuracy.A few footguns we kept running into:- quantized models served under the same name (this one still drives me nuts): providers often serve models with different quants, environments, vLLM/SGLang serving params with the same model-id. Vision is especially sensitive to this; some quants that look fine on text benchmarks noticeably hurt OCR/small-text/spatial accuracy.- video performance is varied: when we tested with popular r

Within the show hn launch space, the company focuses on its core offering rather than a broad product line.

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