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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Baidu.\n\nEric Xu co-founded Baidu with Robin Li in January 2000. He holds a PhD in biology from Texas A\u0026M University and later founded and chairs Yifang Capital, a venture capital and asset management holding company.\n\n## What Eric builds\n\n- [Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unlimited-ocr-2.md), graded D, 53.5/100, in Open-weight models. Unlimited-OCR-2 is Baidu's open-weight document OCR model, about 3.3B parameters, that parses page images, from one page to documents of hundreds of pages in one request, into layout blocks with boxes and HTML tables, under MIT. Co-founder, Baidu, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Robin Li](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robin-li/), Co-founder and CEO, Baidu\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Eric Xu?\n\nEric Xu co-founded Baidu with Robin Li in January 2000. He holds a PhD in biology from Texas A\u0026M University and later founded and chairs Yifang Capital, a venture capital and asset management holding company.\n\n### What does Baidu make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 from Baidu. Unlimited-OCR-2 is Baidu's open-weight document OCR model, about 3.3B parameters, that parses page images, from one page to documents of hundreds of pages in one request, into layout blocks with boxes and HTML tables, under MIT.\n\n### How are Eric's tools graded?\n\nBaidu Unlimited-OCR-2 is graded D, 53.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Xu\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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