China's Baidu launches two new AI models as industry competition heats up

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Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively. Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting DeepSeek’s non-reasoning V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 (how do …

Baidu Stock Gains After Launching AI Reasoning Model Amid Competition With DeepSeek, Alibaba

Baidu says its new Ernie X1 model rivals DeepSeek's capabilities at a lower cost. The post Baidu Stock Gains After Launching AI Reasoning Model Amid Competition With DeepSeek, Alibaba appeared first on Investor's Business Daily.

China is gradually becoming a global leading innovator in advanced industries

Key recent developments, including blockbuster product breakthroughs and renewed political and economic focus, indicate more strongly than ever that China has reached a new stage in its science and technology development. This stage is hallmarked by much greater innovation capability in China's domestic companies.

The Chinese online research giant Baidu is in turn embarking on the race for artificial intelligence. ...

Baidu presents ERNIE 4.5 and its new model of deep reasoning ERNIE X1, with capacities equivalent to DeepSeek R1