As of Thursday, the open-source model leaderboard on Hugging Face is topped by GLM-4.5, with Qwen and Tencent in hot pursuit. K2 sits at No. 9, while eight of the top ten models hail from China.

China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market By Kevin Williams, CNBC • Published June 29, 2025 • Updated on June 30, 2025 at 10:35 am ...

Baidu first debuted its Ernie series of models in 2023, before unveiling a “ significant upgrade ” the following year with the launch of Ernie 4.0 Turbo.

Baidu made its AI model Ernie 4.5 open source, inspired by DeepSeek's success. CEO Robin Li previously said closed-source models were more powerful and economical. Baidu's shares surged last week ...

While Baidu's share price has risen 8% in the past five days, DeepSeek’s success may not mean the same for Baidu. Baidu’s CEO Robin Li said in April 2024 that closed-source models have better ...

Baidu said in March that its recent ERNIE X1 model delivers performance on par with DeepSeek's R1 "at only half the price." Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, hinted earlier this year that the roll-out would ...

Chinese search giant Baidu has said it will make its Ernie generative AI large language model open source on June 30, a threat to OpenAI, Anthropic and its own Chinese rival DeepSeek.