- Baidu made its Open Source IA Ernie 4.5 model, inspired by the success of Deepseek.
- The CEO, Robin Li, previously said that closed source models were more powerful and economical.
- Baidu’s actions jumped last week after announcing that her chatbot IA will be free on April 1.
The CEO of the Chinese giant of Baidu technology claims that the virality of Deepseek prompted the company to make its own model of open source of artificial intelligence.
Open Source models Authorize the free and open sharing of software to anyone at any end whatsoever. Deepseek, an emerging Chinese Startup, launched an open source model in January, Croting American technological companies and AI. Third -party tests have shown that the model has surpassed its peers from Openai, Meta and other best developers, and the company said it had been built for less money.
“One thing we have learned from Deepseek is that open source of the best models can greatly help to adopt,” said Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, said on Tuesday during a call for results. “When the model is open source, people naturally want to try it out of curiosity, which helps drive a wider adoption.”
Baidu announced last week that he would make his last IA model – Ernie 4.5 – Open -Source from June 30. The new mark a reversal of Li’s belief that large-language models should not be open-source.
The CEO previously said that closed source models are generally more powerful and economical than open source models. In an interview last year with Yicai from Chinese media, he said that open source models are a good choice for the academic world, but not for businesses.
Other executives, Including the CEO of Mistral and the main scientist of Meta AI, presented the success of Deepseek as a victory for the open source models.
Baidu on a tear
While competition in the chatbot space intensifies, Baidu has also announced Thursday, he would make his cat free from April 1. The company has cited better technology and cost reduction.
Baidu’s actions listed in Hong Kong jumped almost 12% before closing 5.7% higher on the day of the Chatbot announcement.
At the end of 2023, months after the release of Ernie, Baidu began to charge 59.90 renminbi, or $ 8.20, for premium research features.
“Ernie 4.5 will be our best model of all time. And we would like our users and customers to try them more easily than before,” said Li when winning on Tuesday.
Baidu faces fierce competition from competitors, including the Qwen of Alibaba and Doubao 1.5 Pro from Bytedance. The research rival Tencent announced last week that it would integrate Deepseek into his WeChat messaging platform.
Baidu’s passage at the opening and returning his free cat came a few days before the meeting on Monday from the Chinese leader Xi Jinping with the country’s technological magnates, signaling his support to relaunch the sector. Reunion included the game giant Tence CEO Pony Ma, manufacturer of electric vehicles Byd CEO Wang Chuanfu and Huawei CEO, Ren Zhengfei. Baidu’s Li does not seem to attend the high -level event.
Baidu is also part of a recent stock market gathering for Chinese technological companies, which make a return after the repression of the pandemic era of Beijing against Big Tech.
Baidu said on Tuesday to have doubled its third quarter profit at $ 711 million compared to the previous year. Turnover dropped by 2% to $ 4.67 billion in the quarter ending in December, beating analyst estimates of $ 4.3 billion.
Its listed actions in New York slipped 7.5% after hours on Tuesday after profits.
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