This is cool! With that said for anyone looking to use this in RAG, the downside to specialized models instead of general VLMs is you can't easily tune it to your use specific case. So for example, we use Gemini to add very specific alt text to images in the extracted Markdown. It's also 2 - 3X the cost of Gemini Flash - hopefully the increased performance is significant.

Regardless excited to see more and more competition in the space.

Wrote an article on it: https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/gemini-flash-2-tips