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 giant Baidu has said it will make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source on June 30, a threat to OpenAI, Anthropic and its own Chinese rival DeepSeek.

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.

While DeepSeek doesn't make Baidu’s AI model Ernie irrelevant—its freely distributed format makes monetization of Baidu’s AI business harder in the personal cloud segment. Our fair value ...

As for Baidu’s other model, Ernie 4.5, it’s a more standardized, ... Even Baidu has adopted DeepSeek R1, iterating the reasoning model with its iconic search engine.

Chinese search giant Baidu has said it will make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source on June 30, a threat to OpenAI, Anthropic and its own Chinese rival DeepSeek.