Chinese tech giant Baidu (BIDU) said it has launched two 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:artificial intelligence (AI) models, including the ERNIE X1, which it claims delivers the same performance as DeepSeek R1 “at only half the price.”

Baidu said in a statement Sunday that it had released ERNIE 4.5—its native multimodal foundation model—and ERNIE X1, the “deep-thinking reasoning model with multimodal capabilities” that the company says rivals DeepSeek’s super-efficient open-source AI model. Both models, the Chinese company said, are free for individua🍨l users of its chatbot.

ERNIE X1, Baidu said, "possesses enhanced capabilities in understanding, planning, reflection, and evolution." The deep-thinking reasoning model, Baidu said, excels in areas including dialogue, logical reasoning and complex calculations.

DeepSeek threw markets 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:in disarray earli🐻er this year when the Chinese startup released its own open-source AI model that performed as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and were built at a fractionꩲ of the cost using less advanced chips. 

Baidu's U.S.-listed shares are up around 1% in premarket trading Monday and have lost almost 10% of their value in the 12 months through Friday.