Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents — 2026-06-25

Impact Vector: AI Tools · Jun 25, 2026 · 3m

## Short Segments Baidu's Unlimited OCR model revolutionizes long-document parsing by keeping memory usage constant, even as output grows. Today, we'll explore how this 3B-parameter model, with only 500M active parameters, maintains efficiency and speed, parsing dozens of pages in a single pass. Later, we'll dive into MIT and Microsoft's new system that optimizes AI agent workflows for speed and energy efficiency. Baidu's Unlimited OCR model tackles the scaling problem of traditional OCR systems. Most end-to-end OCR models slow down as output grows, with each generated token adding to the KV…