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Baidu Unveils ERNIE 4.5: Groundbreaking Multimodal AI with 424B Parameters

Jul 02, 2025

GitHub

Baidu unveils ERNIE 4.5, a groundbreaking multimodal AI with up to 424B parameters, achieving state-of-the-art performance across text and multimodal benchmarks, and providing industrial-grade toolkits for efficient training, compression, and deployment.

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Musk's xAI Secures $10 Billion for AI Ambitions, Fueling Rivalry

Jul 02, 2025

CNBC

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI secures $10 billion in funding, with $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, fueling its ambitions to build AI infrastructure and develop the Grok chatbot, intensifying rivalry with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Zuckerberg Unveils Meta's 'Superintelligence' Division, Poaches Top AI Researchers

Jul 01, 2025

eWEEK

Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta's 'superintelligence' division, poaching top AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Sesame, aiming to deliver 'personal superintelligence for everyone'.

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AI Firms Exploit Online Data, Face Lawsuits and Data Access Deals

Jun 30, 2025

MIT Technology Review

Major AI companies scrape the internet for data to train their models, sparking lawsuits from rights holders and prompting deals to legally access data, signaling a shift towards a paid data economy.

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OpenAI Vows Fierce Battle Against Meta's Talent Poaching

Jun 29, 2025

WIRED

OpenAI leadership defiantly vows to combat Meta's aggressive poaching of its top researchers, promising higher compensation and creative retention tactics as the AI lab shifts focus to achieving artificial general intelligence over product rollouts.

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Baidu Opens Ernie AI Model, Shaking Up Generative AI Landscape

Jun 29, 2025

CNBC

In a bold move shaking up the generative AI landscape, Chinese tech giant Baidu releases its powerful Ernie large language model as open source, sparking debate over potential disruption and China's AI leadership while pressuring closed AI providers like OpenAI.

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Meta Poaches Four OpenAI Researchers Amid AI Talent War

Jun 28, 2025

TechCrunch

Meta escalates the AI talent war, poaching four researchers from OpenAI amid its Llama 4 AI models' underperformance, fueling the tug-of-war between the tech giants over AI talent and lucrative compensation packages.

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Companies Embrace 'Model Minimalism' to Cut Costs, OpenAI Unveils o3-pro for Enterprises

Jun 27, 2025

VentureBeat

Companies embrace 'model minimalism' to cut costs while OpenAI unveils o3-pro, a reliable enterprise AI model offering increased tool use at the expense of speed.

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Pearson, Google Cloud Join Forces for AI-Driven Education Innovation

Jun 27, 2025

StockTitan

Pearson and Google Cloud unveil a multi-year AI-driven partnership combining Pearson's educational expertise with Google's AI technologies like Vertex AI Platform and Gemini models to develop personalized student learning tools, data-driven teacher support, scalable AI-powered content delivery, and responsible AI implementation.

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Meta Poaches OpenAI Researcher to Bolster AI Reasoning Capabilities

Jun 27, 2025

TechCrunch

Meta bolsters its AI capabilities by poaching OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal, who joins the company's new AI superintelligence unit led by Alexandr Wang, aiming to develop advanced AI reasoning models to power products like AI agents.

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