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title: "LightOnOCR-3 Hits Top Spot on ParseBench for Open Weight AI"
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summary: "LightOn released LightOnOCR-3, a family of open weight AI models in 0.8B, 1B, and 4B parameter sizes for document recognition. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, the models are up to twice as fast as LightOnOCR-2 and lead the ParseBench benchmark."
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# LightOnOCR\-3 Hits Top Spot on ParseBench for Open Weight AI

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**Published:** 2026-10-08T18:25:08.000Z
**Category:** Open Source
**Topics:** open\-source, llm, devtools

## Summary

LightOn released LightOnOCR\-3, a family of open weight AI models in 0\.8B, 1B, and 4B parameter sizes for document recognition\. Released under an Apache 2\.0 license, the models are up to twice as fast as LightOnOCR\-2 and lead the ParseBench benchmark\.

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- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/lightonocr-3-hits-top-spot-on-parsebench-for-open-weight-ai-83c9fc7e>)
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- [Story source](<https://x.com/cline/status/2108249633789263917>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2108188987357901047>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/dair_ai/status/2108609804080214095>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2108271207992930765>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2108271209205100914>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/stepfun-ai-hits-no-1-on-openrouter-trending-ahead-of-oct-15-open-weight-a194b0e9>)