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Bloomberg
02-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Baidu Overhauls Search Engine With AI Features, Voice Function
Baidu Inc. is overhauling China's most popular search engine with AI features and a voice function in its most sweeping revamp for years. The Beijing-based company said it wants to make its mobile app more like an AI chatbot that can help users with writing, drawing and trip planning tasks. It will focus less on keywords and more on natural language searches and also allow users to perform searches by voice in several Chinese dialects.
South China Morning Post
30-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Baidu the latest to join open-source movement with Ernie 4.5 models publicly available
Chinese tech giant Baidu on Monday marked its entry into the highly competitive field of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI) systems, by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on AI site Hugging Face. Advertisement Baidu open-sourced 10 variants from its Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family, from the 0.3 billion parameter lightweight models to the heavyweight 424 billion parameter ones, according to a statement. Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to develop large language models (LLMs) following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, has made a U-turn by making its models open-source. A year ago, founder and CEO Robin Li Yanhong was publicly saying its Ernie series, like OpenAI's ChatGPT models, would be more powerful than open-source ones. However, the release of open-source models by Chinese start-up DeepSeek, which took the AI world by storm at the start of this year, triggered an accelerated shift to open-source by China's Big Tech firms. For example, the Qwen models developed by Alibaba Group Holding are the world's most popular open-source models among developers. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The logo of Baidu's Ernie Bot is displayed near a screen showing the Baidu logo, in this illustration picture taken June 28, 2023. Photo: Reuters Citing a range of benchmark tests that value an AI system's general and domain knowledge, coding and maths skills, as well as reasoning capabilities, Baidu said that its 300B Ernie 4.5 model outperformed DeepSeek's V3, which was twice the size of the Ernie model. Advertisement The benchmark results showcase the progress Baidu has made in improving its models in recent months, after the company announced earlier this year it would shift to an open source approach. The move followed Hangzhou-based DeepSeek's emergence into the global spotlight with its open-source V3 and R1 models that were built cost-efficiently for high-performance tasks.
South China Morning Post
07-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Baidu AI patent application reveals plans for turning animal sounds into words
Chinese artificial intelligence giant Baidu is seeking a patent for artificial intelligence (AI) technology designed to translate animal sounds into human language. Advertisement The internet search giant submitted the patent application in December, but it was only published publicly by the China National Intellectual Property Administration on Tuesday. The translation method works by collecting various types of data from a target animal, including 'voice, body language, behavioural changes and other biological signs', according to the application posted on the agency's website. It then determines the 'emotion' by analysing the data before converting it into a target language. The technology utilises several subfields of AI, including machine learning, which enables computers to learn from large data sets; deep learning, which uses neural networks to analyse voice and movement characteristics; and natural language processing, which applies computational approaches to the analysis and synthesis of natural language and speech, according to Baidu. If a voice does not match any historical emotional record, the team would manually label the voice data, update the sample and adjust the model parameters. Advertisement The publication of the patent application does not mean it has been granted yet. The process of assessing the application could take a year in the best-case scenario, according to You Yunting, a senior partner at Shanghai Debund Law Firm.
