The battle for the lead in artificial intelligence is becoming a butcher shop. Now it’s about Baiduthe Chinese company that owns the most used search engine in that country, which adds to the frantic race for this technology, which is affecting China as much as the rest of the world. According to Reuters, the company announced yesterday the launch of two new AI models: Ernie 4.5 It is the latest version of the model that was released about two years ago, and Ernie X1 It is the first Baidu model that has been equipped with reasoning capacity. On the occasion of the announcement, the company took the opportunity to specify the characteristics of the new models that will be on the market, designed to compete better with Depseek, the Startup of that same country that in recent months has been largely feeding the struggle of companies in the sector to develop advanced AI models.
The new Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1
In the words of Baidu, known in the West as the “Google of China”, Ernie 4.5 has an “excellent multimodal understanding capacity“In addition, the company promises that the product has a” more advanced linguistic capacity “than that of its predecessor, and also” understanding, generation, logic and memory “that have been significantly improved. This is added in the same way what they have called a” high emotional coefficient “(Quotient Emotional), which is nothing other than the ability to discern emotions and the like, which allows it Understand satirical memes and vignettes that circulate through the network. As to Ernie X1the company wanted to emphasize that it is the First model with capacity To use tools completely autonomously. In fact, compared to its predecessors, it has “greater capabilities of understanding, planning, thinking and evolution”, which allows it to offer “a performance equal to that of Deepseek R1, at half price.”
In summary, with this announcement Baidu returns to the load two years after the launch of its Ernie Bot, one of the first models of the launched by a Chinese company. Unfortunately, however, that Chatbot He never managed to earn the hearts of usersalthough Baidu assured that its performance would rival the GPT-4 of OpenAi. A Hype that did not serve for the Chinese model to be really competitive in the market.
Article originally published in Wired Italy. Adapted by Mauricio Serfatty Godoy.
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