Baidu Inc. It released a new model of artificial intelligence, which expresses its justification, in an apparent offer to regain the momentum against novice rivals like Deepseek.
The Ernie X1 model from the Chinese Internet Head works similarly to Deepseek R1 – which shocked Silicon Valley by offerComparableThe world's best chatbot for a fraction of their developmental costs. Model of the Baid's reasoning stands out in areas such as daily dialogues, comprehensive calculations and logical deduction, VA saiddeclarationSunday.
Baidu also upgraded his flagship model on Ernie 4.5. Immediately created all the levels of its service – including the X1 – free of charge for its chatbot users, several weeks than previously planned.
The company based in Beijing was the first in the Chinese technology sector of a trillion dollars, which launched a chatbot modeled after Openai's Chatgpt, but competing chatbots from the Statedance Ltd. And Moonshot AI soon took over for popularity. Models with an open source such as Alibaba's Qwen and then Deepseek have gained more recognition within the global community of developers.
Ernie 4.5 overcomes the latest Openai GPT 4.5 in the generation of the text, said Baida and quoted several industrial benchmarks.
Baida said he would create Ernie AI open-source models from June 30, which is a great strategic shift after Deepseek's rise. He also integrated the R1 model into its search engine-is bread and butter store.
General boom AI appeared in BaidaResults for December quarterthrough 26% jump in cloud income. This increase, controlled by services provided to developers who chase computing power, was overshadowed by a weak sale of advertising in the middle of Chinese economic nausea.
Baidu closed last month andtradeYou want to get a yy live strength platform Joyy Inc. Acceptance of $ 2.1 billion issued about $ 1.6 billion that Baidu previously deposited in the safekeeping accounts, which isfalseInvest in AI and cloud infrastructure.
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