LateOn-Code & ColGrep: LightOn unveils state-of-the-art code retrieval models and code search tooling 6 days ago • 44
LightOnOCR-1B: The Case for End-to-End and Efficient Domain-Specific Vision-Language Models for OCR Oct 23, 2025 • 73
LateOn-Code 💻 State-of-the-art late interaction code retrieval models lightonai/LateOn-Code-edge Sentence Similarity • 16.8M • Updated 6 days ago • 603 • 14 lightonai/LateOn-Code Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated 6 days ago • 65 • 12 lightonai/LateOn-Code-edge-pretrain Sentence Similarity • 16.8M • Updated 6 days ago • 95 • 2 lightonai/LateOn-Code-pretrain Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated 5 days ago • 48 • 2
LightOnOCR 🦉 The Case for End-to-End and Efficient Domain-Specific Vision-Language Models for OCR lightonai/LightOnOCR-1B-1025 Image-to-Text • Updated 7 days ago • 126k • 233 lightonai/LightOnOCR-0.9B-16k-1025 Updated 28 days ago • 1.53k • 12 lightonai/LightOnOCR-0.9B-32k-1025 Updated 28 days ago • 82 • 19 Running 42 LightOnOCR 1B Demo 💬 42 Extract text from images or PDFs with OCR
PyLate 🐕 lightonai/Reason-ModernColBERT Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Sep 9, 2025 • 17.9k • • 207 lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 Sentence Similarity • Updated 28 days ago • 21.5k • 155 lightonai/answerai-colbert-small-v1 Sentence Similarity • 33.4M • Updated Jun 30, 2025 • 155 • • 3 lightonai/colbertv2.0 Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Feb 10, 2025 • 4.58k • • 4
PAGnol 🇫🇷 French language models. These model were trained in early 2021 following the then scaling laws and using the exact same training data as the CamemBERT lightonai/pagnol-small Text Generation • Updated Mar 21, 2024 • 33 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-medium Text Generation • 0.4B • Updated Jan 6, 2025 • 15 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-large Text Generation • Updated Mar 24, 2024 • 6 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-xl Text Generation • 2B • Updated Nov 7, 2024 • 6 • 1
LightOnOCR-2 🦉 LightOnOCR-2-1B: a lightweight high-performance end-to-end OCR model family lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 16 days ago • 217k • 525 lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 26 days ago • 32.6k • 20 Running on Zero Featured 94 LightOnOCR 2 1B Demo 🐨 94 Extract text from images and PDFs with OCR lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B-base Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 28 days ago • 8.15k • 9
Embeddings datasets ⚡️ This collection gather datasets for embeddings pre-training and fine-tuning. lightonai/embeddings-pre-training Viewer • Updated Jan 5 • 1.38B • 1.25k • 18 lightonai/nanobeir-multilingual Viewer • Updated Sep 16, 2025 • 522k • 923 • 11
ModernBERT Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling answerdotai/ModernBERT-base Fill-Mask • 0.1B • Updated Jan 15, 2025 • 965k • 995 lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 Sentence Similarity • Updated 28 days ago • 21.5k • 155 lightonai/Reason-ModernColBERT Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Sep 9, 2025 • 17.9k • • 207 lightonai/modernbert-embed-large Sentence Similarity • 0.4B • Updated May 14, 2025 • 45.3k • • 28
RITA 🧿 A suite of autoregressive generative models for protein sequences, with up to 1.2Bparameters, trained on over 280 million protein sequences. lightonai/RITA_s Text Generation • 85.1M • Updated Nov 13, 2024 • 173 • 3 lightonai/RITA_m Text Generation • 0.3B • Updated Jan 6, 2025 • 41 lightonai/RITA_l Text Generation • Updated May 19, 2022 • 52 lightonai/RITA_xl Text Generation • 1B • Updated Dec 10, 2024 • 40 • 3
ArabicWeb24-ablation-models 900M models trained on 25BT to compare different data processing choices (filtering, sentence dedup, minhash, etc) lightonai/ArabicWeb24-ablation-model-v1 Text Generation • Updated Aug 19, 2024 lightonai/ArabicWeb24-ablation-model-v5 Text Generation • Updated Aug 19, 2024 • 2
LateOn-Code 💻 State-of-the-art late interaction code retrieval models lightonai/LateOn-Code-edge Sentence Similarity • 16.8M • Updated 6 days ago • 603 • 14 lightonai/LateOn-Code Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated 6 days ago • 65 • 12 lightonai/LateOn-Code-edge-pretrain Sentence Similarity • 16.8M • Updated 6 days ago • 95 • 2 lightonai/LateOn-Code-pretrain Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated 5 days ago • 48 • 2
LightOnOCR-2 🦉 LightOnOCR-2-1B: a lightweight high-performance end-to-end OCR model family lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 16 days ago • 217k • 525 lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 26 days ago • 32.6k • 20 Running on Zero Featured 94 LightOnOCR 2 1B Demo 🐨 94 Extract text from images and PDFs with OCR lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B-base Image-Text-to-Text • 1B • Updated 28 days ago • 8.15k • 9
LightOnOCR 🦉 The Case for End-to-End and Efficient Domain-Specific Vision-Language Models for OCR lightonai/LightOnOCR-1B-1025 Image-to-Text • Updated 7 days ago • 126k • 233 lightonai/LightOnOCR-0.9B-16k-1025 Updated 28 days ago • 1.53k • 12 lightonai/LightOnOCR-0.9B-32k-1025 Updated 28 days ago • 82 • 19 Running 42 LightOnOCR 1B Demo 💬 42 Extract text from images or PDFs with OCR
Embeddings datasets ⚡️ This collection gather datasets for embeddings pre-training and fine-tuning. lightonai/embeddings-pre-training Viewer • Updated Jan 5 • 1.38B • 1.25k • 18 lightonai/nanobeir-multilingual Viewer • Updated Sep 16, 2025 • 522k • 923 • 11
PyLate 🐕 lightonai/Reason-ModernColBERT Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Sep 9, 2025 • 17.9k • • 207 lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 Sentence Similarity • Updated 28 days ago • 21.5k • 155 lightonai/answerai-colbert-small-v1 Sentence Similarity • 33.4M • Updated Jun 30, 2025 • 155 • • 3 lightonai/colbertv2.0 Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Feb 10, 2025 • 4.58k • • 4
ModernBERT Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling answerdotai/ModernBERT-base Fill-Mask • 0.1B • Updated Jan 15, 2025 • 965k • 995 lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 Sentence Similarity • Updated 28 days ago • 21.5k • 155 lightonai/Reason-ModernColBERT Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated Sep 9, 2025 • 17.9k • • 207 lightonai/modernbert-embed-large Sentence Similarity • 0.4B • Updated May 14, 2025 • 45.3k • • 28
PAGnol 🇫🇷 French language models. These model were trained in early 2021 following the then scaling laws and using the exact same training data as the CamemBERT lightonai/pagnol-small Text Generation • Updated Mar 21, 2024 • 33 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-medium Text Generation • 0.4B • Updated Jan 6, 2025 • 15 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-large Text Generation • Updated Mar 24, 2024 • 6 • 1 lightonai/pagnol-xl Text Generation • 2B • Updated Nov 7, 2024 • 6 • 1
RITA 🧿 A suite of autoregressive generative models for protein sequences, with up to 1.2Bparameters, trained on over 280 million protein sequences. lightonai/RITA_s Text Generation • 85.1M • Updated Nov 13, 2024 • 173 • 3 lightonai/RITA_m Text Generation • 0.3B • Updated Jan 6, 2025 • 41 lightonai/RITA_l Text Generation • Updated May 19, 2022 • 52 lightonai/RITA_xl Text Generation • 1B • Updated Dec 10, 2024 • 40 • 3
ArabicWeb24-ablation-models 900M models trained on 25BT to compare different data processing choices (filtering, sentence dedup, minhash, etc) lightonai/ArabicWeb24-ablation-model-v1 Text Generation • Updated Aug 19, 2024 lightonai/ArabicWeb24-ablation-model-v5 Text Generation • Updated Aug 19, 2024 • 2