Baidu Inc. has released a new artificial intelligence model that clarifies its reasoning in order to regain momentum against up-and-coming rivals like Deepseek.
The Ernie X1 model by Chinese Internet search reader works similarly to the Deepseek R1.Equal performanceBecome the world’s best chatbot with just a small portion of development costs. Baidu’s inference model excels in areas such as daily dialogue, complex calculations, and logical deductions, it saidstatementSunday.
Baidu has also upgraded its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5. All stages of the service, including the X1 model, have now become free for chatbot users for weeks more than previously planned.
The Beijing-based company was the first to launch a chatbot modeled after Openai’s ChatGpt in China’s $1 trillion high-tech sector, but rival chatbots from Bytedance Ltd. and Moonshot AI quickly took over the popularity. Open source models like Alibaba’s Qwen and later Deepseek have gained greater recognition within the global developer community.
Ernie 4.5 surpasses Openai’s latest GPT 4.5 for text generation, citing several industry benchmarks.
Baidu has declared that the Ernie AI model will be open sourced from June 30th, representing major strategic changes since the rise of Deepseek. We also integrated the R1 model into our search engines, namely the bread and butter business.
The generation AI boom has appeared in BaiduDecember ResultsThrough a 26% jump in cloud revenue. That rise was driven by services offered to developers chasing computing power, hidden by the weakness of advertising sales amid China’s economic fraud.
Baidu concluded last monthDeductionsTo acquire YY live streaming platform Joyy Inc., the $2.1 billion acquisition released $1.6 billion that Baidu had previously deposited in his Escrow account.scheduleInvest in AI and cloud infrastructure.
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