By going down the open-source route, Baidu may also be able to sidestep U.S. sanctions on China, as it will be able to leverage the expertise of AI contributors from all over the world.

Expect Baidu's model to be under plenty of scrutiny, too. This week, Germany moved to ban DeepSeek for transferring data to China. In AI, the term open-source refers to systems where the code and ...

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.

Baidu also plans to introduce a new next-generation model, Ernie 5, in the second half of 2025, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. "Baidu to make next-gen AI model Ernie open source ...

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 technology giant Baidu said on Monday it will make its Ernie generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) open-source amid an increasingly fierce AI competition in the ...

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.

AI Photo: VCG. Chinese technology giant Baidu said on Monday it will make its Ernie generative AI large language model (LLM) open-source amid an increasingly fierce AI competition in the world.