Baidu launches new AI models, touts superiority to DeepSeek, OpenAI on benchmarks

Chinese technology giant Baidu released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models that it touted as stronger than those of DeepSeek and OpenAI based on certain benchmarks, as the large language model (LLM) competition continues to heat up.

Baidu made its latest multimodal foundational model Ernie 4.5 and its first multimodal reasoning model Ernie X1 freely available on its website on Sunday.

Ernie 4.5’s multimodal capabilities, which cover images, audio and video, outperformed…