Baidu has given its search product the biggest overhaul in 10 years by adding artificial intelligence features. Baidu search has been facing pressure from AI rivals like Tencent and DeepSeek. Analysts ...

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.

For a company long defined by proprietary development, this move is a symbol of a broader technological undercurrent sweeping ...

However, all of China’s leading AI firms were upended by the dramatic debut of DeepSeek, which took the industry by storm with R1, paving the way for an era of much more affordable AI models.

Baidu’s search engine upgrades are its most significant changes in a decade. The AI features include longer queries, voice ...

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 was among the first Chinese companies to launch AI products following OpenAI's ChatGPT release in late 2022. However, its large language model Ernie, which Baidu claims matches GPT-4's ...

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.