🤖 Baidu Outperforms GPT-4.5 While Being 99% Cheaper

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• 🇨🇳Baidu Outperforms GPT-4.5 While Being 99% Cheaper

• 🔬Harvard’s AI Agent Gives Personalized Medical Treatments

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

BAIDU

🇨🇳Baidu Outperforms GPT-4.5 While Being 99% Cheaper

Chinese Tech Giant Baidu launched “ERNIE 4.5” and “ERNIE X1,” which outperform “GPT-4.5” and compete with “DeepSeek-R1.”

Key Details:

• “ERNIE 4.5” is a Multimodal AI Model designed to process and understand text, images, audio, video, and code. It boasts enhanced Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to notice sarcasm, satire, and humor.

• “ERNIE X1” is a Reasoning Engine designed to mimic a human’s decision-making capabilities. It excels at breaking down complex problems into manageable steps.

• “ERNIE 4.5” outperforms “GPT-4.5” while costing just 1% of OpenAI’s input and output prices.

• “ERNIE X1” competes with “DeepSeek-R1” while costing just 50% of DeepSeek’s input and output prices.

Why It’s Important:

• DeepSeek claims that “DeepSeek-R1” and “DeepSeek-V3” have a theoretical daily revenue of $562,027. Baidu is positioning itself as an even more cost-effective alternative with “ERNIE X1.”

• China’s AI Labs continue to showcase their ability to compete with U.S. AI Firms at a fraction of the cost with half the computational resources.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🔬Harvard’s AI Agent Gives Personalized Medical Treatments

Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) developed “TxAgent,” an AI Agent focused on providing accurate and reliable therapeutic recommendations.

Key Details:

• “TxAgent” leverages multi-step reasoning and retrieves real-time biomedical knowledge from 211 specialized tools.

• These 211 specialized tools help analyze drug interactions and create patient treatment strategies. For example, openFDA outlines information on drug labels and drug recalls.

• “TxAgent” was trained using three AI Frameworks:

  1. ToolGen: Generates tool requests.

  2. QuestionGen: Generates medical questions.

  3. TraceGen: Generates reasoning steps.

• The training dataset included 378,027 examples of successfully answered medical questions with 281,695 tool requests and 177,626 reasoning steps.

Why It’s Important:

• “TxAgent” can help clinicians reduce feelings of burnout by quickly retrieving and analyzing complex medical information.

• It can address healthcare disparities by offering instant access to expert-level knowledge in areas with limited access to medical specialists.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

VP of Research for Post-Training Liam Fedus is leaving OpenAI to create a Materials Science AI Startup.

Anthropic launched Extended Thinking (ET), which enables Claude Code to “think,” “think more,” and “think harder.”

Intel’s New CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is revamping the struggling company’s approach to manufacturing Advanced AI Chips.

Popular YouTuber Mark Rober conducted a controversial experiment comparing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology against a car equipped with Luminar’s LiDAR.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Harmony Intelligence raises a $3M Seed Round for AI-Based Cyber Defenses.

• MaxIQ secures a $7.8M Seed Round for an AI-Powered Customer Journey Management Platform.

• Y Combinator (YC) CEO Gary Tan says about a quarter of the current YC startups use AI to write 95% of their code.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• PMG (Dallas, TX): AI & Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• DoorDash (Remote): Master Data Management Specialist, Entry-Level

• IMC Trading (Chicago, IL): Machine Learning (ML) Engineer, Mid-Level

• xAI (Memphis, TN): Sr. Civil Engineer, Senior-Level

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