AI giants Baidu, OpenAI offer their chatbots for free in response to DeepSeek’s advance | CNN Business

AI giants Baidu, OpenAI offer their chatbots for free in response to DeepSeek’s advance | CNN Business


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Chinese internet search giant Baidu will make its advanced AI chatbot services free, as competition heats up among global developers following the surging popularity of startup DeepSeek’s models.

Ernie Bot, the Beijing-based company’s AI chatbot with premium features like AI painting, will be available to both mobile and desktop users at no cost starting from April 1, it

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