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In today’s Daily Report:
🇨🇳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
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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
Are we witnessing the start of a global AI price war?
AI RESEARCH
🔬Harvard’s AI Agent Gives Personalized Medical Treatments
Image Source: Harvard Medical School (HMS)/“TxAgent: An AI Agent for Therapeutic Reasoning Across a Universe of Tools”/Screenshot
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.
“TxAgent” was trained using three AI Frameworks:
ToolGen: Generates tool requests.
QuestionGen: Generates medical questions.
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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