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.

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 ...

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 ...