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.

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.

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 ...

In a call following its fourth-quarter 2024 results statement, Baidu CEO Robin Li said the decision to open source its Ernie 4.5 series partly stemmed from DeepSeek's success, which he said had ...