Monday, December 15, 2025

New Ministral 3 14B vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B Review

I review data accuracy retrieval and inference speed for the new Ministral 3 14B model vs older Mistral Small 3.2 24B. Older and larger 24B model wins this time. 

 

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Structured Data Retrieval with Sparrow using OCR and Vision LLM [Improved Accuracy]

I explain improvements I'm adding into Sparrow to achieve better accuracy for structured data. I'm using a method, where I run OCR step first, then construct advanced prompt with injected OCR data. This prompt is sent along with image to Vision LLM for structured data retrieval. All this happens as part of a single pipeline.

 

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Ollama and MLX-VLM Accuracy Review (Qwen3-VL and Mistral Small 3.2)

I was running detail tests to compare accuracy for the same models (Qwen3-VL and Mistral Small 3.2) running on Ollama and MLX-VLM (recent 0.3.7 version). MLX-VLM runs faster, but with lower accuracy. The same is valid across different models.

 

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Comparing Qwen3-VL AI Models for OCR Task

I'm comparing the Qwen3-VL 8B BF16 and Qwen3-VL 30B Q8 models for OCR and structured data extraction tasks. Based on my findings, the quantized 30B model runs faster and with better accuracy than the 8B BF16 model, despite using more memory. 

 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Qwen3-VL Accuracy Differences on Ollama vs MLX

I run couple of tests with structured data extraction using newest Qwen3-VL model on Mac Mini M4 Pro with 64GB. I discovered the same Qwen3-VL model with the same level of quantantization performs differently on Ollama vs. MLX. It seems model conversion step is crucial and we must evaluate model performance on different platforms before going to production. 

 

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Qwen3-VL New Models Comparison and Performance on Mac Mini M4

I run and compare newest Qwen3-VL models in Sparrow. Qwen3-VL models run fast and provide good accuracy. 

 

Friday, October 10, 2025

Ollama Support in Sparrow and Update to Latest MLX

I explain whats new in Sparrow and what was updated in the recent version.