Chinese tech giant Baidu has released AI models Ernie X1 and Ernie 4.5, intensifying competition with US AI companies.

Chinese tech giant Baidu said it has launched two artificial intelligence models, including the ERNIE X1, which it claims ...

US shares of the Chinese tech giant Baidu gained after the company revealed its Ernie X1 model, said to be as capable and ...

Chinese vendor says its latest foundation models will deliver performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at half the price.

Baidu’s Ernie 4.5 is expected to become open source by June 30, 2025, while the company said it's also making its chatbot, ...

China's Baidu said on Sunday it has launched two new artificial intelligence models, including a new reasoning-focused model ...

Ernie 4.5 is Baidu's new generation multimodal foundation model, which possesses the ability to understand and generate text, ...

Baidu's efforts come on the heels of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiling its AI model R1 in January and detailing in a ...

and ERNIE X1, designed for deep-thinking reasoning. Both models are now available free of charge to individual users through the official ERNIE Bot platform, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

ERNIE 4.5 is trained on massive pieces of data, and can do a bunch of different tasks. ERNIE Bot is being made free to the ...