Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with ...

Expect Baidu's model to be under plenty of scrutiny, too. This week, Germany moved to ban DeepSeek for transferring data to ...

For a company long defined by proprietary development, this move is a symbol of a broader technological undercurrent sweeping ...

Baidu said in March that its recent ERNIE X1 model delivers performance on par with DeepSeek's R1 "at only half the price." Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, hinted earlier this year that the roll-out would ...

Baidu's Ernie is poised to disrupt China's open-source AI market, following DeepSeek's impact intensifying competition ...

Ernie would be made available to the open community. The WeChat post mentioned that the company would open-source its “next ...

Baidu's CEO credits DeepSeek for the push to open-source its own AI model . ... In late 2023, months after Ernie was released, Baidu started charging 59.90 renminbi, or $8.20, ...

It also claims to undercut the cost of both fellow Chinese wunderkind’s DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model with ERNIE X1 by 50% and US AI juggernaut OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 with ERNIE 4.5 by 99% ...

Chinese tech giant Baidu said it has launched two artificial intelligence models, including the ERNIE X1, which it claims delivers the same performance as DeepSeek R1 “at only half the price.” ...

Chinese tech firm Baidu said it would offer access to its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Ernie Bot, for free starting April 1. The chatbot, first released just a few months after OpenAI ...

Baidu is going after its fellow Chinese rival, DeepSeek, launching a reasoning model it claims is as good as DeepSeek R1 but far cheaper. The new Baidu reasoning model, Ernie X1, was also ...