# Eric Xu (slim)

> Eric Xu is co-founder of Baidu. Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Baidu.

Eric Xu co-founded Baidu with Robin Li in January 2000. He holds a PhD in biology from Texas A&M University and later founded and chairs Yifang Capital, a venture capital and asset management holding company.

## What Eric builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Robin Li](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/robin-li/), Co-founder and CEO, Baidu

## Questions

### Who is Eric Xu?

Eric Xu co-founded Baidu with Robin Li in January 2000. He holds a PhD in biology from Texas A&M University and later founded and chairs Yifang Capital, a venture capital and asset management holding company.

### What does Baidu make?

Anchor Terminal lists Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 from Baidu.

### How are Eric's tools graded?

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 is graded D, 53.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Xu

These 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.