Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with uncertain consequences for the market.

Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to develop LLMs, has made a U-turn by making its models open source.

Baidu’s ERNIE 4.5 follows a trend increasingly visible in China’s AI ecosystem. DeepSeek, a relative newcomer, shook up the landscape by prioritizing openness, benchmark transparency, and ...

China’s open-source AI push expands after DeepSeek, as Baidu and Huawei launch new models Baidu has open-sourced 10 variants from its Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family. Huawei launches open-source ...

Nvidia Corp. boss Jensen Huang lauded DeepSeek and China’s other contributions to AI research as he met with political and ...