Social media giant ByteDance on Wednesday released a new artificial intelligence model that looks to challenge those from DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud in the global market for open-source AI systems.

The “think” mode on DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot was previously powered by its R1 reasoning model that garnered global attention after its release in January, following the launch of the V3 ...

DeepSeek refreshes its AI line-up with V3.1, a faster, chip-optimised model designed to keep it competitive while the world awaits its next big release.

Baidu Inc.’s quarterly revenue fell its most in about three years, hurt by an economic downturn that’s capping its ability to fight bigger rivals in AI and make inroads in newer areas.

DeepSeek unveiled an update to an older model that it says surpasses the seminal R1 on key benchmarks, keeping the Chinese startup in the game while the industry awaits its next flagship offering. The ...

Baidu’s Ernie was one of the first chatbots to launch in the world’s biggest internet arena, but it’s since lost ground to apps from ByteDance Ltd. and Tencent as well as open-sourced models like ...

Alibaba’s Qwen research group has released an open-source AI model, Qwen-Image-Edit, which enables advanced image editing through text prompts.

Baidu is counting on its chatbot Ernie to underpin an AI ecosystem and drive demand for its cloud division. Read more at ...