<ul><li>Chinese web search giant Baidu has launched two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, claiming superior performance compared to DeepSeek and OpenAI.</li><li>ERNIE X1 offers advanced deep-thinking reasoning capabilities, while ERNIE 4.5 is a native multimodal system capable of processing text, images, audio, and video.</li><li>Baidu's models undercut the cost of DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model by 50% and OpenAI's GPT-4.5 by 99% but currently lack open source licensing.</li><li>ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 can be accessed through Baidu's ERNIE Bot website and available soon via Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan platform.</li></ul>

Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

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