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

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Tech giant says reasoning model Ernie X1 delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price’.

Pricing for business access to Ernie X1’s application programming interface (API) is set at 2 yuan (US$0.28) per million token inputs and 8 yuan per million token outputs, the company said.

But its early-mover advantage was challenged by China’s other AI players in the last two years.

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Author / Journalist: Xinmei Shen

Category: Business

Markets: Hong KongChina

Topics: Ernie Openai’s Deepseek Chinese Benchmarks Models Model Based Latest Multimodal Baidu

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Published On: 2025-03-16 @ 14:10:45 (8 hours ago)

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