H2O.ai has unveiled two new vision-language models, H2OVL Mississippi-2B and H2OVL Mississippi-0.8B, aimed at enhancing document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. Despite their smaller size, these models demonstrate competitive performance against larger models from major tech companies, with the 0.8B model excelling in the OCRBench Text Recognition task. CEO Sri Ambati emphasized that these models are designed to be cost-effective while delivering high performance across various document-heavy workflows, VentureBeat reports. The models are available on Hugging Face, enabling developers to adapt them for specific needs.