Men communicate with the Baid AI robot near the company logo at their headquarters in Beijing, China, April 2, 2021.
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Beijing – China Baid He plans to publish the next generation of his artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year, according to a source that is familiar with this matter, as newer players like Deepseek disrupt the segment.
Ernie 5.0, called the “foundation model”, has been set on “great improvements in multimodal capabilities,” the source said, without stating its functions. “Multimodal” AI can process texts, videos, pictures and sound to combine them, as well as convert them into categories-on example, text in video and vice versa.
The foundations of the foundation can understand the language and perform a wide range of tasks, including generating text and image and communication in natural language.
The planned Baidua update comes as Chinese companies are racing to develop innovative AI models to compete with Openi and other US companies. At the end of January, the startup Deepsek based in Hangzhou encouraged a global sale of technology supplies by publishing its open code of AI, which impressed users with its disperse and claims on the underestimation of Openi’s Chatgpt drastically on costs.
“We live in an exciting time … The cost of concluding [of foundation models] Basically, it can be reduced by more than 90% over 12 months, “said Baidua CEO of Robin Li this week at the World Government Summit in Dubai. This is a statement to the public with Omar Sultan Al Olam, a UAE state minister for artificially artificial Intelligence, digital economy and remote work apps.
“If you can reduce the costs for a particular percentage, it means that your productivity is increasing to such a percentage. I think it is a rather nature of innovation,” it noticed if it was.
Baidu was the first great Chinese technological company to introduce a Chatgpt similar to chatbot called Ernie in March 2023 but despite initial momentumThe product has since been eclipsed by other Chinese AI chatboti from startups as well as large technological companies like Alibaba and Byteddance.
Although Alibaba shares have increased by 33% for so far, Baid shares increase by 6%. Tencent has noted about 4% so far for so far. Bytottance is not listed.
The Baidu Ernie model already supports the integration of the generative AI in different products engaged in consumers and jobs, including cloud storage and content creation.
Last month, Baidu said his Wenka platform for creating presentations and other documents reached 40 million users who have been paying since the end of 2024, up to 60% from the end of 2023. Updated features, such as using AI to generate a presentation on the basis of a company’s financial application, began to divorce users in January.
The current version of Ernie’s model is Generation 4, published in October 2023. Upgraded version “Turbo” Ernie 4.0 was published in August 2024. Baid did not officially announce plans to post a new generation update.
The latest version of Openai’s Chatgpt, GPT-4o, was released in May 2024. Openi CEO of Sam Altman Sam said in the Reddit session “Ask me anything” earlier this month that there was no public Timeline for the GPT-5 edition.
Baid did not answer the commentary request.
