{"id":1724,"date":"2025-06-30T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/baidu-joins-open-source-movement-by-making-ernie-4-5-models-publicly-available\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:16:27","slug":"baidu-joins-open-source-movement-by-making-ernie-4-5-models-publicly-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/baidu-joins-open-source-movement-by-making-ernie-4-5-models-publicly-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models publicly available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese tech giant Baidu on Monday marked its entry into the highly competitive field of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on AI site Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\" css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-y2bwcc e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Baidu open-sourced 10 variants from its Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family, from the 0.3 billion parameter lightweight models to the heavyweight 424 billion parameter ones, according to a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to develop large language models (LLMs) following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, has made a U-turn by making its models open-source. A year ago, founder and CEO Robin Li Yanhong was publicly saying its Ernie series, like OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT models, would be more powerful than open-source ones.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"13.905759162304\">However, the release of open-source models by Chinese start-up DeepSeek, which took the AI world by storm at the start of this year, triggered an accelerated shift to open-source by China&rsquo;s Big Tech firms. For example, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">the Qwen models developed by Alibaba Group Holding<\/span> are the world&rsquo;s most popular open-source models among developers. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">The logo of Baidu&rsquo;s Ernie Bot is displayed near a screen showing the Baidu logo, in this illustration picture taken June 28, 2023. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Citing a range of benchmark tests that value an AI system&rsquo;s general and domain knowledge, coding and maths skills, as well as reasoning capabilities, Baidu said that its 300B Ernie 4.5 model outperformed DeepSeek&rsquo;s V3, which was twice the size of the Ernie model.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\" css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-gy323d e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The benchmark results showcase the progress Baidu has made in improving its models in recent months, after the company announced earlier this year it would shift to an open source approach. The move followed Hangzhou-based DeepSeek&rsquo;s emergence into the global spotlight with its open-source V3 and R1 models that were built cost-efficiently for high-performance tasks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models publicly available<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant Baidu on Monday marked its entry into the highly competitive field of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on AI site Hugging Face. 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