Chinese internet search giant Badu released a new Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Model on Sunday and made her AI chatbot services for free as cruel competition catchs sector.
Technology companies in China are scratching to release better AI platforms as Start-up Dipsek surprised its rivals with their open source and highly cost-skilled models in January.
Baidu announced in a WeChat post that its latest X1 Reasoning Model – which claims that the company claims that Deepsek but for low cost – and a new Foundation model, Erni 4.5, was available through its AI chatboot Erone Bot.
Baidu also independent to use the model, more than two weeks before the schedule. Previously, users had to pay monthly membership to reach the company’s latest AI model.
The Beijing-based company was the first to roll a general AI platform publicly in 2023, but the rival chatbot of companies such as Tikkok owner Bidens and Moonshot AI has received more users ever since.
Baidu faces strict competition in the consumer-supporting AI sector, where the Startup Deepsek shook the industry with a model at home and abroad, which performed comparatively to contestants such as US-made chats, but spent very little to develop.
Since then, Chinese companies and local government agencies have participated in their work to include Deepsek’s open-source model, while other technology companies are playing catch-ups.
Baidu has integrated the R1 Reasoning model of Deepsek in its search engine.
In February, WECHAT owner TENENT released a new AI model, claiming that it answers faster questions compared to Deepsak, even included its rival technique in its messaging platform.
The same month, Alibaba, which has participated with Apple to develop AI for American company phones in China, said he would invest 380 billion yuan ($ 52 billion) in AI in the next three years.
Alibaba also released a new version of its AI Assistant App run by its Open-SUS Quven Reasoning Model this month.
BAIDU has also announced a plan to follow the leadership of the Deepsek by making its ERNIE AI model open-source from 30 June.
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