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 shares surged last week ...

Chinese tech firm Baidu said it would offer access to its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Ernie Bot, for free starting April 1. The chatbot, first released just a few months after OpenAI ...

As for Baidu’s other model, Ernie 4.5, it’s a more standardized, nonreasoning model that’s designed to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4o, yet it boasts “excellent multimodal understanding ...

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 ...

While Baidu's share price has risen 8% in the past five days, DeepSeek’s success may not mean the same for Baidu. Baidu’s CEO Robin Li said in April 2024 that closed-source models have better ...

However, it was DeepSeek and OpenAI that Alibaba waved its gauntlet at and not Baidu, giving a strong sense of where the ecommerce giant sees its greatest competition. Baidu, however, is pushing hard.

"The only thing you need to do is to get the right person," Wang Jian, who built Alibaba Cloud, said in an interview with ...

Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU) CEO Robin Li said investment in data centers and cloud infrastructure is still required in spite of the cost efficiency shown by DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK) compared to the large AI ...

In 2023, Baidu launched paid premium functions for its AI service, including its text to image generator, charging users from up to 59.9 yuan ($8.2) a month. Ernie Bot has amassed 430 million ...

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.