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.

Baidu open sources Ernie 4.5 AI model family Jun. 30, 2025 8:16 AM ET Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) Stock BABA , DEEPSEEK By: Ravikash Bakolia , SA News Editor 2 Comments Play ( 2min ) ...

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 launch a new next-generation model, Ernie 5, in the second half of 2025, a person familiar with the matter has said. (Reporting by Liam Mo and Brenda Goh; Editing by Edwina ...

Baidu has officially open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 series, releasing 10 models on Hugging Face, GitHub and its own PaddlePaddle ecosystem. The lineup includes large-scale MoE (mixture of experts) models ...

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.

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.