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 ...

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

Baidu made its AI model Ernie 4.5 open source, inspired by DeepSeek's success. CEO Robin Li previously said closed-source models were more powerful and economical.

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% ...

In a report earlier this year, U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP Chairman John Moolenaar accused DeepSeek of being a ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Chinese search engine giant Baidu said on Friday it would make its next-generation artificial intelligence model Ernie open-source from June 30, a major shift in strategy as competition heats up.