Men interact with Bido AI robot near the company's logo at its headquarters in Beijing, China, April 23, 2021.
Florence Lu Reuters
Beijing – China Bido It plans to issue the next generation of the artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the latest players such as Deepseek are disrupted.
Ernie 5.0, called “The Foundation Form”, is scheduled to be “major improvements in the multimedia capabilities”, the source said, without specifying its functions. “Multimodal” AI can process text, videos, photos and sound to merge them as well as convert them across categories-text to video and vice versa, for example.
Basic models can understand the language and perform a wide range of tasks including generating text and images, and communication in the natural language.
The planned update of Baidu comes as Chinese companies are racing to develop models of innovative artificial intelligence to compete with Openai and other US -based companies. In late January, the Hangzhou -based Deepseek company prompted its headquarters to sell a global technology by issuing the open -ended artificial intelligence model that impressed users of their capabilities to think and call Chatgpt from Openai to the cost.
“We live in an exciting time … the cost of inference (basic models) can be reduced mainly by more than 90 % over the course of 12 months,” Robin Lee said at the Global Government Summit in Dubai. This is according to a press statement from Fireside conversation with Omar Sultan Awama, Minister of the United Arab Emirates for artificial intelligence, digital economy, and remote work applications.
“If you can reduce the cost by a certain percentage, this means that your productivity increases under this type of percentage. I think this is the nature of innovation to a large extent.”
Baidu was the first major Chinese technical company to launch a Chatbot is similar to ChatGPT He called Erney in March 2023. But though The initial momentumSince then, the product has been dismantled by other Chinese Chatbots programs from startups as well as large technology companies such as Ali Baba And bytedance.
While Alibaba shares increased by 33 % for this year so far, BAIDU shares increased by 6 %. TENCENT has made about 4 % gains for this year. Bydtedance has not been listed.
The BAIDU's ERNIE model has already supports the integration of artificial intelligence through a group of consumer and consumers products, including cloud storage and content creation.
Last month, Baidu said that the Winku platform for creating presentations and other documents reached 40 million paid users from the end of 2024, With an increase of 60 % of the end of 2023. The updated features, such as the use of artificial intelligence to create a presentation based on the financial deposit of the company, began to be presented to users in January.
The current Ernie version is Generation 4, released in October 2023. Ernie 4.0 promoted “Turbo” version has been released August 2024. Baidu has not officially announced plans to issue the next generation update.
The latest version of Chatgpt from Openai, GPT-4O was released in May 2024. “Ask me anything” earlier this month that there was no audience. GPT-5 version schedule.
Bido did not respond to a request for comment.
