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Hi,

Here’s your Monday round-up of data driving conversations this week — all in less than 250 words.

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1. A Chinese discount. Baidu’s new multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 on several benchmarks—while being 99% cheaper.

   

2. An open alt. The Allen Institute released OLMo 2 32B, the first fully open-source¹ GPT-4-class model. (via

   Nathan Lambert
   )

3. Solar capacity. The amount of new solar power added worldwide could jump 177% from 2022 to 2025 cumulatively—nearly tripling in just three years.

4. One Trump, two markets. The same man, the same office—but vastly different market reactions. (via

   Joachim Klement
   )