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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.
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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.
