From The Next Web: Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve, an AI system that runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on GPUs and more than sixfold on Kunlunxin chips. All figures are Baidu’s own.
ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps unchanged parts of an image intact over 100 rounds of edits and creates transparent-background assets. It is rolling out in ByteDance’s Chinese apps. The performance claims are ByteDance’s own.
Maxinsights has nearly 4,000 collectors wearing cameras to record everyday actions and turns the footage into robot training data; its founder says the company holds about 2 million hours of first-person data and ARR is around $250M.
Google's announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, released the day after Anthropic's Fable 5.2.
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
The range of $70 to $78 per share implies up to $1.404T fully diluted; SiliconANGLE puts the fundraising goal at $64B.
