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.

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.

DeepSeek is the name of a free AI-powered chatbot, which looks, ... Baidu's Ernie or Doubao by ByteDance - DeepSeek is trained to avoid politically sensitive questions.

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 ...

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.

Baidu competes with DeepSeek through Ernie X1 Another company has recently joined the DeepSeek competition, as the Chinese tech giant Baidu released a new reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) model.

Baidu has introduced two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1. Ahead of the originally scheduled April 1 release date, they have been made available to the public through the ERNIE Bot.