Baidu unveiled its latest AI models, ERNIE X1 Turbo and ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, which offer improved performance in multimodal understanding, logical reasoning, and tool usage.
The Turbo models are aimed at making high-level AI more accessible and cost-effective, with ERNIE X1 Turbo being 25% cheaper than DeepSeek R1.
Baidu's advancements in chain-of-thought reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and tool integration position ERNIE X1 Turbo and 4.5 Turbo as highly efficient and intelligent AI systems.
Baidu had introduced earlier models in March and made its AI chatbot, ERNIE Bot, free for individual users ahead of schedule.