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Today we unveiled the top 10 frontier technology inventions of 2025, including breakthroughs spanning large models, deep learning frameworks, AI compute, agents, AI search, digital humans, and autonomous driving. Behind the accelerating emergence of AI applications lies our deep strength in foundational innovation — ranking first in China in AI patents for seven consecutive years and ranking among the global leaders in generative AI, deep learning patents, and autonomous driving technology. See these many of these innovations in action at Baidu World 2025 on November 13!

Less than a week to go! ⏰ Join us live on Nov 13 at 9:30 am UTC+8 / 5:30 pm PT for Baidu World 2025 — streaming straight from Beijing. Discover our newest AI innovations and see how they're shaping everyday possibilities. Watch the livestream on X or YouTube! X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1… YouTube: youtube.com/live/e2v_JdT9Y…

Qianfan-VL, Baidu AI Cloud's vision-language model series, is now open source! Designed for enterprise-level applications, these multimodal models combine robust general capabilities with advanced performance in OCR and math problem-solving. Key features: > Three model sizes (3B, 8B, 70B) with 32K context length for diverse needs > Chain-of-thought reasoning in 8B/70B for strong performance in chart understanding, math, and visual logic > Four-stage progressive training pipeline for improved cross-modal alignment and domain enhancement > High-precision data synthesis pipeline across documents, math, charts, tables, formulas, and OCR tasks Discover more about Qianfan-VL ↓

👏Check out PP-OCRv5, our small yet powerful model specializing in OCR.

Check out the latest innovations we unveiled at Wave Summit 2025, from the ERNIE X1.1 reasoning model to the new open-source ERNIE-4.5 model, plus major upgrades to the PaddlePaddle framework and AI coding assistant Baidu Comate 3.5S. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking is now the top trending text-generation model and third overall on @huggingface. 🔥 > 21B total parameters, 3B active parameters per token > Enhanced 128K long-context understanding capabilities > Lightweight MoE model with near-SOTA intelligence

ERNIE X1.1 just launched! Unveiled at Wave Summit 2025, our latest reasoning model reduces hallucinations, improves instruction following, and delivers strong agentic capabilities. ✅ Achieves significant performance gains over ERNIE X1, with factual accuracy up 34.8%, instruction following up 12.5%, and agentic capabilities up 9.6% ✅ In benchmark evaluations, it surpasses DeepSeek R1-0528 and performs on par with GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro ✅ Built on the foundation of ERNIE 4.5, the model is enhanced with extensive mid-training and post-training, including end-to-end reinforcement learning ✅ Available on ERNIE Bot, Wenxiaoyan app and our MaaS platform Qianfan (via API) Try ERNIE X1.1 on ERNIE Bot now: ernie.baidu.com 🎙️ Join the ERNIE team live for a deep dive into X1.1 at 07:00 AM UTC-7 X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1… YT: youtube.com/live/1ZHqwkg9-…

The ERNIE 4.5 series is now officially open source. This family of models includes 10 variants—from MoE models with 47B and 3B active parameters, the largest having 424B total parameters, to a 0.3B dense model—all available now to the global AI community for open research and development. Explore the models here: - Hugging Face: huggingface.co/baidu - GitHub: github.com/PaddlePaddle/E… - Baidu AI Studio: aistudio.baidu.com/overview View the technical report here: ernie.baidu.com/blog/publicati…

Meet ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, featuring upgraded multimodal capabilities, faster response times, and an 80% lower price compared to ERNIE 4.5. Input and output prices of ERNIE 4.5 Turbo are $0.11 per 1M tokens and $0.44 per 1M tokens, respectively, priced at approximately 40% of the latest version of DeepSeek V3. It delivers better results than GPT-4o in multiple benchmark tests in terms of multimodal and text capability, with an average score of 77.68 in multimodal capability tests, exceeding GPT-4o's score of 72.76. #BaiduCreate2025

Baidu Launches ERNIE 4.5 Turbo, ERNIE X1 Turbo and New Suite of AI Tools to Empower Developers and Supercharge AI Innovation prn.to/42ZYa90

Introducing ERNIE X1 Turbo & ERNIE 4.5 Turbo! Building on the success of ERNIE X1 and 4.5, the upgraded ERNIE X1 Turbo and 4.5 Turbo deliver results faster and cheaper. Both models stand out for their multimodal capabilities, strong reasoning and low costs. For X1 Turbo, input and output prices start at $0.14 per 1M tokens and $0.55 per 1M tokens, respectively, priced at approximately 25% of DeepSeek R1. #BaiduCreate2025 (Exchange rate used: 1 RMB ≈ 0.14 USD)

ERNIE 4.5 Turbo launches at #BaiduCreate2025 on April 25! Discover the new capabilities of our latest model, plus attend 40+ AI open classes and explore our 5,000m² AI exhibition space. See you in Wuhan—stay tuned for what's to come!

ERNIE 4.5 achieves collaborative optimization through joint modeling of multiple modalities, exhibiting comprehensive improvements in understanding, generation, reasoning and memory, along with notable enhancements in hallucination prevention, logical reasoning, and coding abilities.

ERNIE 4.5 & ERNIE X1 are here!

📢 ERNIE 4.5 launches on March 16! As the latest foundation model in the ERNIE family, ERNIE 4.5 features significant enhancements in capabilities, plus native multimodal and reasoning abilities. Stay tuned!

Is continuous AI investment still crucial? Despite falling costs, our CEO, Robin Li emphasized that continued investment in technology development and infrastructure remains vital to staying ahead of this technological revolution. #WGS25

Exciting news! ERNIE Bot will be free for all users starting April 1. Users will have access to all advanced features on desktop & mobile versions of the app. We're also launching Deep Search, a new function with enhanced thinking, planning, and tool-calling, delivering expert-level responses. Stay tuned for more updates!

Just in: We're rolling out the ERNIE 4.5 model series in the coming months and plan to open source the models from June 30th. Curious about what's coming next?

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