Hanoi, July 2 -- As Vietnam races to embrace digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI), a homegrown innovation is poised to redefine how users handle the country's complex language and documents.

The CMC Research Institute for Applied Technology (CMC ATI) has unveiled CATI-VLM, an AI model for document reading that has already claimed a spot among the world's elite, ranking first in Vietnam and among the top 12 globally in the Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) category of the Robust Reading Competition (RRC) in June 2025.

The RRC, launched in 2011 by the Computer Vision Centre at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is a prestigious global stage for advancements in computer vision and document recognition. It ...