Chinese tech giants Baidu and Huawei have released significant AI models into the open-source community this week, following the success of start-up DeepSeek in drawing attention to open-source AI.
Baidu made its Ernie 4.5 models available on Hugging Face, with a range of variants from lightweight to the 424 billion parameter version, while Huawei open-sourced two of its Pangu AI models, highlighting their performance.
Baidu's 300B Ernie 4.5 model surpassed DeepSeek's V3, showcasing intense competition in China's AI market, where open-source models are gaining popularity among developers, with Alibaba's Qwen models being well-received.
Huawei's open-sourcing efforts extend to a pathology model in collaboration with Ruijin Hospital, aiming to improve cancer diagnoses in China. This move follows other Chinese AI startups also contributing to the open-source community.