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MiniCPM5-2B vs 4B Rivals: Why an Agentic Harness Tells a Different Story
MiniCPM5-2B beats 4B rivals on single-shot scores, then falls two to three times behind in agentic harnesses. The benchmark mix-up and Ollama throughput.
10 min readMCP Vision Tools with MiniCPM-V on Ollama
Expose describe, OCR and image-compare tools over MCP with MiniCPM-V on Ollama, so Cursor and Claude Desktop can reason about screenshots fully locally.
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