Not Just DeepSeek, China's AI Landscape Heats Up As Baidu Launches Free Ernie Bot

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The company looks to offer its artificial intelligence chatbot, Ernie Bot, free of cost from April 1 to all users on both desktop and mobile platforms, Reuters cites from Baidu’s WeChat post.Ernie 5.0 could have enhancements in multimodal capabilities, CNBC cited the source.

Baidu, Inc (NASDAQ:BIDU) stock gained Thursday after the Chinese internet search company shared plans to launch the next generation of its artificial intelligence model in the second half of 2025, CNBC cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter.

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