Destination

2025-03-16

Baidu claims its Ernie X1 reasoning model matches Deepseek-R1 performance at half the price

The Chinese search and Internet company Baidu presents the latest version of its chatbot Ernie, which is supposed to deliver significantly better results than before. It also gets support for plugins.


Baidu has introduced two new AI models that take aim at Western competitors with aggressive pricing and plans for open-source release.


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