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DeepSeek demand shrinking: Baidu founder notes shift away from text-only AI

Chinese tech major Baidu launched Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, which feature multimodal capabilities including text, image, audio and video

China's Baidu denies data breach after executive's daughter leaks info

Baidu was thrust into the spotlight last week after online users accused the teenage daughter of Baidu vice president Xie Guangjun of posting personal information of other users

Baidu unveils reasoning AI model to regain ground against DeepSeek

Baidu's reasoning model excels in areas like daily dialogs, complex calculations and logical deduction, it said in a statement

Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

Keen to increase market share, Baidu also announced that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions

China's Baidu to make AI chatbot Ernie bot free of charge from April 1

The AI service will be accessible at no cost to all users on both desktop and mobile platforms, Baidu said

Baidu likely to release next-generation AI model 'Ernie 5' this year

The new model, Ernie 5, will feature multimodal capabilities enabling it to process and convert between different formats including text, video, images and audio

Baidu bolsters AI lineup with text-to-image generator, no-code app builder

These interactions include tasks such as generating text, answering questions, and assisting with various applications utilizing AI. Baidu's commercialization efforts have largely revolved around

Chinese tech giants cut prices of language models used to power AI chatbots

It was quickly followed by Baidu, which hours later announced that its Ernie Speed and Ernie Lite models would be free for all business users

China's Baidu tops quarterly revenue estimates on ad recovery, cloud demand

Baidu has recently intensified its efforts to boost sales from its AI-related products and services

Baidu and Tesla agree on mapping deal for FSD in China, says report

As part of the deal, Baidu would also provide its lane-level navigation system to Tesla, they said

China's Baidu says AI chatbot 'Ernie Bot' has attracted 200 million users

Ernie Bot was the first locally developed ChatGPT-like chatbot to be announced in China and was approved for public release in August, last year

Baidu terminates $3.6 bn purchase of JOYY's China live-streaming unit

The failure of the deal casts a shadow on search engine giant Baidu's ambition to diversify its revenue. The company proposed to acquire JOYY's entertainment live streaming business in China in 2020

Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mn users: CTO Haifeng

The user base milestone, announced at a deep learning summit in Beijing, comes after the search engine giant opened Ernie Bot to the public in August

China's Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4

Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its artificial intelligence model, Ernie 4.0, claiming that it rivals models such as GPT-4 in the U.S. Baidu's CEO Robin Li demonstrated Ernie 4.0 at the company's annual Baidu World conference in Beijing. He said the model has achieved comprehension, reasoning, memory and generation, which uses algorithms to produce and create new content. Li said that Ernie 4.0 was able to understand complex questions and instructions and apply reasoning and logic to generate answers to questions. It is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4, Li said, stating that the latest model was significantly improved compared to its original Ernie Bot model. In a live demonstration, Li prompted Ernie 4.0 to generate advertising materials including advertising posters and a marketing video. He also asked Ernie 4.0 to come up with a martial arts novel complete with characters with various personalities. Baidu is a

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China's Baidu claims its AI model Ernie beats ChatGPT in multiple metrics

Baidu, the leading search engine provider in China, was the country's first tech company to debut a rival product to Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT

Baidu unveils ChatGPT-rival Ernie Bot, shares tumble; 650 companies sign up

The company's Ernie bot is based off its AI-driven deep learning model, Ernie - short for "Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration"

Is Xi Jinping a good leader? Here is what Chinese chatbot answered

According to experts, censors on chatbots could strengthen ideological control and further separate China digitally from the rest of the world

US to China, tech giants hit the tracks in race for AI one-upmanship

ChatGPT Effect: Microsoft, Google, Baidu, Alibaba ready their own chatbot services

AI integration may soon fundamentally alter how we search on the internet

AI has found its way into a number of industries, from transportation to health. Now it is being integrated with search engines