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Baidu has released its advanced AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, making them freely available to users through the ERNIE Bot platform. This move is a direct challenge to AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek, aiming to provide broader access to cutting-edge AI technology. By offering these models for free, Baidu seeks to accelerate user engagement and gather real-world data to refine their AI capabilities, potentially shifting the balance in the AI landscape by making sophisticated AI tools a new standard rather than a luxury.

ERNIE 4.5 is a multimodal foundation model capable of integrating and understanding text, images, audio, and video. It enhances language understanding, reasoning, generation, and memory, and can even interpret internet memes and satirical cartoons. ERNIE X1, on the other hand, is designed for reasoning-intensive tasks, excelling in logical inference, problem-solving, and structured decision-making. Baidu claims ERNIE 4.5 can match the performance of models like DeepSeek R1 at half the deployment cost, while ERNIE X1 has demonstrated strong capabilities in areas like Chinese knowledge Q&A and complex calculations.

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References :

• Fello AI: Baidu’s New ERNIE 4.5 & X1 – A Free AI That Is Better Than GPT-4.5 & Costs Pennies!
• AI News: Baidu undercuts rival AI models with ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1
• www.tomshardware.com: ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost

Classification:

• HashTags: #BaiduERNIE #AIModels #OpenAI
• Company: Baidu
• Target: General AI users
• Product: ERNIE 4.5 & X1
• Feature: AI Models
• Type: AI
• Severity: Informative