📆 ThursdAI - Jul 3 - ERNIE 4.5, Hunyuan A13B, MAI-DxO outperforms doctors, RL beats SWE bench, Zu...

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This ThursdAI episode highlights significant advancements in open-source AI from Chinese companies, including Baidu's Ernie 4.5, Tencent's Hunyuan A13B, and Huawei's Pangu Pro, alongside Magenta and Together AI's Deep Sweet RL agent achieving 59% on Swebench, and major industry shifts like Meta's new Super Intelligence Labs attracting top talent with substantial packages.

Key Points: Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5, a suite of 10 models (0.3B to 424B parameters) under an Apache 2 license, supporting images, video, and text, and outperforming OpenAI's O1 on visual knowledge tasks, with Ernie 4.5 424B achieving 93% versus OpenAI's 81% on Doc VQA. Tencent, with its Wizard LM team, released Hunyuan A13B, a 13 billion active parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 256K context window, demonstrating strong performance on long-context benchmarks but featuring restrictive licensing that excludes commercial use in EU, UK, South Korea, and by companies with over 100 million active users. Huawei launched Pangu Pro, a 72 billion parameter MoE model, notably trained entirely on their proprietary Ascend NPUs, achieving up to 1500 tokens per second per card. Magenta and Together AI's Deep Sweet Preview, an open-source reinforcement learning (RL) coding agent, achieved 59% on Swebench verified, becoming one of the top open-source results by applying RL to a Qwen 32B base model, trained for a week on 64 H100s. Microsoft AI DXO, an AI system, outperforms doctors on open-ended medical cases, signaling a step towards AI doctor applications. Meta formed a new AI organization, Meta Super Intelligence Labs (MSL), under Alexander Wang, actively attracting top talent with substantial compensation packages, including some previous ThursdAI guests. Weights & Biases is hosting a hackathon in San Francisco on July 12-13, focusing on agent protocols, offering cash prizes and a custom Weights & Biases Robo-Dog as the first prize.

Context: ThursdAI, hosted by Alex Walov (AI evangelist with Weights and Biases) alongside co-hosts Yampell, Wolf from Raven Wolf, and LDJ Nan, is a weekly show that covers significant developments in the AI industry. This July 3rd episode, the first of the second half of 2025, featured discussions on major open-source model releases, big company AI news, industry hiring trends, and specific interviews with AI researchers and company founders. The show aims to provide a comprehensive overview of important AI news for its audience.