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 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 ...

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.

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.