Last Week in AI #215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search
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Jul 8, 2025 Discover how Cloudflare is tackling AI data scraping with new blocking features. Exciting innovations are afoot as Runway lets users create video games using AI. Google is also making strides with AI tools tailored for education, aiming to enhance classroom experiences. The competitive landscape heats up with Meta's recruitment efforts, and hot topics include the recent launch of the open-source Ernie 4.5 model by Baidu. Dive into the philosophical questions surrounding AI as Denmark introduces novel copyright laws for personal features.
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Emerald AI Optimizes Data Center Energy
- Emerald AI integrates data center loads to balance power usage and reduce grid strain.
- This could unlock up to 100 gigawatts of US data center energy, aiding power grid stability.
Baidu Open Sources Ernie 4.5
- Baidu released Ernie 4.5, a large open-source LLM with 424B parameters under Apache 2.0 license.
- This marks Baidu's shift toward open-source, offering a competitive option alongside LLaMA and DeepSeek models.
Tencent's Dual-Mode Thinking Model
- Tencent released Hunyun A13B, an 80B param model with fast and slow thinking modes.
- It uses dual-mode chain of thought and task-specific reinforcement learning to achieve strong agentic reasoning.