China's free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US ...

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.

On Friday, Baidu added that it would launch the next generation of its AI model by the end of June and, for the first time, make it open source, mirroring DeepSeek’s approach.

This week, US President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called AI Action Plan - a sort of call to arms to ensure the country ...

Baidu was among the first Chinese companies to launch AI products following OpenAI's ChatGPT release in late 2022. However, its large language model Ernie, which Baidu claims matches GPT-4's ...

Chinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector.

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.