Men cooperate with the Baidu AI robot near the company's logo at its headquarters in Beijing in China on April 23, 2021.
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Beijing – China Baida According to the source of selection of this case, it plans to publish the next generation of his artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year.
Ernie 5.0, called the “foundation model”, has “large improvements in multimodal capabilities”, said the source without determining its function. “Multimodal” AI can process texts, films, images and sound to combine them, as well as convert them in terms of an example text on video and vice versa.
Foundation models can understand the language and perform a wide range of tasks, including generating text and images, and communicating in natural language.
The planned Baidu update comes when Chinese companies are racing for the development of innovative AI models to compete with Opeli and other companies based in the USA. At the end of January, Deepseek based in Hangzhou caused the sale of global technological stocks with the release of his AI Open Source model, which impressed users of his reasoning and claims about undercutting chatgpt Opennai drastically on costs.
“We live in an exciting time … The cost of inference (foundation models) can basically be reduced by over 90% in 12 months,” said the general director of Baidu, Robin Li at the summit of the world's government in Dubai this week. This is in line with the press message of his chat with Fireside with Omar Sultan Al Olam, the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and distant applications.
“If you can reduce costs by a certain percentage, it means that your performance increases by this type of percent. I think it's actually the nature of innovation, “Li noted.
Baidu was the first large Chinese technology company that she introduced Chatgpt chatbot called Ernie in March 2023, but despite initial shootsSince then, the product has been overshadowed by other Chinese Chatbots AI from startups, as well as large technologies such as Alibaba and Bytedance.
While Alibaba shares increased by 33% this year, Baidu shares increased by 6%. Tencent achieved profits of around 4% this year. Bytetane is not replaced.
The Ernie Baidu model already supports the integration of generative artificial intelligence in a number of consumer and business products of the company, including storage in the cloud and creating content.
Last month, Baidu said that his Venko platform for creating presentations and other documents reached 40 million paying users at the end of 2024, an increase of 60% from the end of 2023.. Updated functions, such as the use of artificial intelligence to generate a presentation based on the company's financial application, began to be implemented for users in January.
The current version of the Ernie model is Generation 4, published in October 2023. The improved version of “Turbo” Ernie 4.0 was released in August 2024. Baidu has not officially announced plans to issue a new generation update.
The latest version of chatgpt Openai, GPT-4O, was released in May 2024. The president of Opeli, Altman himself, said during the Reddit session “Ask me about anything” at the beginning of this month that there was no audience TIME AD TO REVIEW GPT-5.
Baidu did not answer the request for comment.