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🤖 Baidu Outperforms GPT-4.5 While Being 99% Cheaper

PLUS: Harvard’s AI Agent Gives Personalized Medical Treatments

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James Roesser
March 18, 2025

Welcome back AI enthusiasts!

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

Image Source: Canva’s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

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.

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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.

  • 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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🐣Crosshatch delivers hyper-personalized customer experiences.

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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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