Baidu will start rolling out the LLM series to users in the coming months and plans to open-source its code on June 30. The company uses Ernie to power a ChatGPT-like chatbot service called Ernie Bot.

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.

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese search engine giant Baidu said on Friday it would make its next-generation artificial intelligence model Ernie open-source from June 30, a major shift in strategy as ...

Baidu made its AI model Ernie 4.5 open source, inspired by DeepSeek's success. CEO Robin Li previously said closed-source models were more powerful and economical.