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2025-03-17

Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app. [...]

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2025-02-13

Baidu is making its AI assistant ERNIE Bot free to use starting on April 1

Amid stiff competition, Baidu says it’s making its AI chatbot free to use. Starting on April 1, ERNIE Bot will be available to users at no cost. Baidu says it will also issue refunds to users in som [...]

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2025-02-28

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

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2025-07-01

Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5

Baidu is shifting its strategy in the global AI race by open-sourcing its new ERNIE 4.5 model family under the Apache 2.0 license. This marks a major reversal for the company, which previously kept ER [...]

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2025-03-16

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

Baidu has introduced two new AI models that take aim at Western competitors with aggressive pricing and plans for open-source release.<br /> The article Baidu claims its Ernie X1 reasoning model [...]

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2025-08-05

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]

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2025-07-15

Uber and Baidu are teaming up to deploy thousands of autonomous vehicles globally

Uber and China-based Baidu are teaming up to deploy more autonomous vehicles throughout the world. The companies plan on bringing thousands of Baidu's Apollo Go vehicles to various regions that w [...]

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2025-01-27

China’s DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit

Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has become the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating out ChatGPT and other rivals. It's powered by the open-source DeepSeek V [...]

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2025-01-29

OpenAI suddenly thinks intellectual property theft is not cool, actually, amid DeepSeek’s rise

OpenAI claims that Chinese startups are persistently trying to copy the technology of American AI companies. Aligned with that, OpenAI says it and partner Microsoft have been banning accounts suspecte [...]

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2025-05-14

Baidu could start testing its Apollo Go robotaxi service in Europe this year

Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxi service is making its debut in Europe later this year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Chinese company is reportedly negotiating with Switzerland’s PostAuto [...]

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