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.

Baidu, China's answer to Google, has released two new AI models. On Saturday, Baidu released Ernie X1, a reasoning model it said "delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price." ...

Baidu made its AI model Ernie 4.5 open source, inspired by DeepSeek's success. CEO Robin Li previously said closed-source models were more powerful and economical.

Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 follows a trend increasingly visible in China’s AI ecosystem. DeepSeek, a relative newcomer, shook up the landscape by prioritizing openness, benchmark transparency, and ...

Baidu said in March that its recent ERNIE X1 model delivers performance on par with DeepSeek's R1 "at only half the price." Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, hinted earlier this year that the roll-out would ...

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.