Baidu updates AI reasoning model to rival systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google

Baidu updates AI reasoning model to rival systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google

The update reflects heightened competition in China’s AI market, where open-source models from DeepSeek and Alibaba are widely adopted.

Baidu Unveils ERNIE X1.1, Matching GPT-5 in Performance

Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled new AI products at its Wave Summit conference held on September 9, including the ERNIE X1.1 reasoning model, an upgraded PaddlePaddle framework and a new version of its coding assistant Comate. The company also open-sourced a new ERNIE-4.5 model designed for advanced reasoning tasks. Baidu said ERNIE X1.1 delivers improvements in factuality, instruction following and agentic capabilities. Compared to its predece…

Baidu Unveils Reasoning Model ERNIE X1.1 with Upgrades in Key Capabilities

ERNIE X1.1 shows major advancements in factuality, instruction following, and agentic capabilities; it surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 in overall performance while performing on par with top-tier models like GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. The PaddlePaddle-ERNIE ecosystem now serves 23.33 million developers and 760,000 enterprises; while the AI coding assistant Baidu Comate has supported more than 10 […]