Baidu updates AI reasoning model to rival systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google

Baidu updates AI reasoning model to rival systems from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google

The update reflects heightened competition in China’s AI market, where open-source models from DeepSeek and Alibaba are widely adopted.

Baidu Unveils Reasoning Model ERNIE X1.1 with Upgrades in Key Capabilities

ERNIE X1.1 shows major advancements in factuality, instruction following, and agentic capabilities; it surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 in overall performance while performing on par with top-tier models like GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. The PaddlePaddle-ERNIE ecosystem now serves 23.33 million developers and 760,000 enterprises; while the AI coding assistant Baidu Comate has supported more than 10 […]