{"slug": "interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0", "title": "Interfaze (YC P26) redistribute openRAIL-M model under Apache 2.0", "summary": "Interfaze (YC P26) released interfaze-1-lite, described as the first general open-weight model for deterministic work covering OCR, speech-to-text, extraction and classification, and redistributed it under Apache 2.0 despite the original openRAIL-M license. A critic alleged the model was copied from Chandra OCR 2, renamed, and had its license changed, noting interfaze-1-lite scores 83.8 on olmocr versus Chandra OCR 2's 85.8. The model returns confidence scores and metadata such as bounding boxes on every run and is hosted at huggingface.co/interfaze-ai/interfaze-1-lite.", "body_md": "Looks like you copied Chandra OCR 2 into your repo, renamed it, changed the license, and made the output worse (your olmocr score is 83.8 vs our 85.8).\n\nIntroducing interfaze-1-lite, the first general open-weight model for deterministic work\nOCR, speech-to-text, extraction, classification and more\nIt returns confidence scores and metadata like bounding boxes on every run\n\n[huggingface.co/interfaze-ai/i…](https://huggingface.co/interfaze-ai/interfaze-1-lite)\n00:00", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/VikParuchuri/status/2107914822507487609", "published_at": "2026-10-08 07:22:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-08 07:49:36.678653+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "computer-vision", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Interfaze", "YC P26", "interfaze-1-lite", "Chandra OCR 2", "Hugging Face", "olmocr"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/interfaze-yc-p26-redistribute-openrail-m-model-under-apache-2-0.jsonld"}}