Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

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Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app.Read More

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