The day in AI
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Launches and products
30 Jun 2025BaiduERNIE 4.5 open-source family Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 models under Apache 2.0, from a 0.3B dense model to a 424B-total (47B active) multimodal MoE.30 Jun 2025MicrosoftMAI-DxO (Diagnostic Orchestrator) Orchestrator where LLM roles act as a virtual physician panel; with o3 it solves 85.5% of 304 NEJM cases vs 20% for 21 physicians.30 Jun 2025Huawei (Pangu)openPangu 7B and Pangu Pro MoE (72B) Huawei open-sourced a 7B model and the 72B Pangu Pro MoE (16B active), built for Ascend; a GitHub study then alleged overlap with Qwen.
People and teams
Nat FriedmanNFDG (venture fund) → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Co-leads MSL's products and applied research under Wang; Meta also took a stake in the NFDG fund he ran with Daniel Gross.
Hongyu RenOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta's memo credits him as co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, o3 and o4-mini; one of the OpenAI reasoning cohort that moved in June 2025.
Huiwen ChangOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Co-creator of GPT-4o image generation per Meta's memo; earlier invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research.
Ji LinOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta's memo credits him on o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5 and the Operator reasoning stack.
Jiahui YuOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Credited in Meta's memo as co-creator of o3, o4-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o; BI dates his exit to late June 2025.
Pei SunGoogle DeepMind → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Worked on Gemini post-training, coding and reasoning after building Waymo's last two generations of perception models, per Meta's memo.
Joel PobarAnthropic → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Returned to Meta from Anthropic's inference team after 11 earlier years at Meta (HHVM, Hack, Flow, ML tooling); the memo's only Anthropic hire.
Jack RaeGoogle DeepMind → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Left Google DeepMind where he led Gemini pretraining and contributed to Gemini 2.5 reasoning; one of the MSL memo's named hires from Google.
Johan SchalkwykSesame → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Early Sesame contributor and technical lead for its Maya voice model, listed in Meta's June 2025 memo; Bloomberg reported him alongside Rae and Bansal.
Shuchao BiOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini per Meta's memo; left OpenAI in June 2025 to work on RL, post-training and agents (BI).
Shengjia ZhaoOpenAI → Meta Superintelligence Labs. Named MSL chief scientist on 2025-07-25. Wired reported he had signed paperwork to return to OpenAI before Meta formalized the title; Meta says he co-founded MSL from day one.