Expect Baidu's model to be under plenty of scrutiny, too. This week, Germany moved to ban DeepSeek for transferring data to China. In AI, the term open-source refers to systems where the code and ...

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

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.

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.

Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd ADR (NYSE: BABA) saw its stock slip 1.4% in premarket trading on Monday following the announcement by Chinese tech giant Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) that it will make its Ernie ...

Baidu also plans to introduce a new next-generation model, Ernie 5, in the second half of 2025, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. "Baidu to make next-gen AI model Ernie open source ...