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  • 2Releases tracked
  • Oct 12Latest · ColGrep-Agent-2B
  • 100%Open-weight
  • FRParis, France

LightOn is a Paris, France-based AI company that builds enterprise document search and understanding software. Its main product, LightOn Core, is a platform for searching and governing large document collections, offered alongside a developer API for parsing, extraction and retrieval. Its tracked releases are open-weight under Apache 2.0: the LightOnOCR-3 family of end-to-end document OCR models (October 2026), which adds grounded layout output, image descriptions and chart data extraction, and ColGrep-Agent-2B, a local code-search agent that coding agents can delegate repository search to. LightOn says it has worked on AI research since 2016.

LightOn

France Europe lighton.ai

2 releases latest Oct 12, 2026

  1. ColGrep-Agent-2B

    Local 2B code-search agent that coding agents delegate repo search to; fine-tuned from MiniCPM5-2B; Apache 2.0.

    • Coding
    • Open weights
    Source

  2. LightOnOCR-3 (0.8B, 1B and 4B)

    End-to-end document OCR family with grounded layout, image descriptions and chart data extraction; Apache 2.0.

    • Multimodal
    • Open weights
    Source

LightOn FAQ

What is LightOn's latest AI model?
LightOn's most recent release in the Startrise tracker is ColGrep-Agent-2B, released Oct 12, 2026.
How many AI models has LightOn released?
Startrise tracks 2 notable LightOn releases since January 2025, from LightOnOCR-3 (0.8B, 1B and 4B) (Oct 8, 2026) to ColGrep-Agent-2B.
Does LightOn release open-weight models?
Yes. 2 of 2 tracked LightOn releases (100%) ship with downloadable weights; the most recent is ColGrep-Agent-2B.
Where is LightOn based?
LightOn is based in Paris, France.