When all the OCR companies out here fighting and benchmaxxing each other
Which no customer actually cares about
We are here just running our customers internal evals against another OCR providers for them
Which no customer actually cares about
We are here just running our customers internal evals against another OCR providers for them
OCR folks are having a heated debate about particular benchmarks in this thread. Much of the frustration stems from the unreasonable sway benchmarks have on vendor selection: nobody looks behind the top level score!
This invites moral hazard when publishing a benchmark, and understandably shines a light on motivations and incentives at play, even if there are good intentions.
As a consumer of models, if you are relying on benchmarks the least you should do is look at the traces from 3-5 failing tasks and try to make an informed decision yourself. Vik has a checklist as well below.
Don't make up your mind based on twitter arguments either! Look at the data. Also sometimes "benchmarks of benchmarks" are slop. You really need to look at the data yourself if you are making large purchasing decisions based on the numbers.View quoted post on X
