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Meta has poached top AI talent from OpenAI, including Alexandr Wang joining as Chief AI Officer to work towards superintelligence, signaling a strong push for the next Llama model. The AI job market shows polarization with high demand and compensation for top-tier talent, while credentials like strong GitHub projects gain importance. The WizardLM team moved from Microsoft to Tencent to develop open-source models like Hunyuan-A13B, highlighting shifts in China's AI industry. Rumors suggest OpenAI will release a new open-source model in July, potentially surpassing existing ChatGPT models. Baidu open-sourced multiple variants of its ERNIE 4.5 model series, featuring advanced techniques like 2-bit quantization, MoE router orthogonalization loss, and FP8 training, with models ranging from 0.3B to 424B parameters. Gemini 2.5 Pro returned to the free tier of the Gemini API, enabling developers to explore its features.