Chinese technology giant Baidu will launch the next -generation AI model this year

Beijing – China’s Baidu He plans to launch the next generation of his artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year, according to a source familiar with the matter, since the newer players like Deepseek interrupt the segment.

Ernie 5.0, called “Base Model”, has “great improvements in multimodal capacities,” said the source, without specifying its functions. The “multimodal” can process texts, videos, images and audio to combine them and turn them into categories: video to video and vice versa, for example.

Base models can understand language and make a wide range of tasks that include generating text and images, and communicating in natural language.

Baidu’s planned update occurs when Chinese companies run to develop innovative models to compete with Operai and other companies based in the United States. At the end of January, the head -based startup in Hangzhou, Deepseek, caused a sale of global technological actions with the launch of its open source AI model that impressed users with their reasoning capabilities and statements to drastically underrude the chatgpt of the chatgpt of OpenAI in the cost.

“We are living in an exciting moment … the cost of inference (of foundations models) can basically reduce by more than 90% for 12 months,” said Baidu CEO, Robin Li, at the World Summit of Governments In Dubai this week. That is according to a press release from his chat next to the fire with Omar Sultan al Olama, the Minister of State of the EAU for artificial intelligence, digital economy and remote work applications.

“If you can reduce the cost by a certain percentage, that means that your productivity increases in that type of percentage. I think that is the nature of innovation,” Li said.

Baidu was the first large Chinese technology company to implement a Chatbot chatbot called Ernie in March 2023. But despite Initial impulseSince then, the product has been eclipsed by other Chinese startup chatbots, as well as large -technology companies such as Alibaba and bytedance.

While Alibaba shares have shot 33% for the year so far, Baidu shares have increased 6%. Tencent has achieved profits of approximately 4% for the year so far. The byte is not listed.

The Ernie de Baidu model already admits the integration of the generative AI in a range of products oriented to consumers and businesses of the company, including cloud storage and content creation.

Last month, Baidu said his Wenku platform to create presentations and other documents had reached 40 million users who pay at the end of 2024, 60% more than at the end of 2023. The updated characteristics, such as the use of AI to generate a presentation based on the financial presentation of a company, began to be implemented to users in January.

The current version of the Ernie model is Generation 4, launched in October 2023. An updated version of “Turbo” Ernie 4.0 was launched August 2024. Baidu has not officially announced plans to launch the update of the next generation.

The latest version of Chatgpt of Opensei, GPT-4O, was released in May 2024. The Operai CEO, Sam Altman, said at a Reddit session “ask me anything” earlier this month that there was no audience TIME LINE FOR THE GPT-5 launch.

Baidu did not respond to a request for comments.