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Google-owned Waymo had been increasing the footprint of its self-driving cars in the US and abroad, but Chinese companies aren't far behind. Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc has announced that its autonom

China's artificial intelligence space is moving towards free-use, open-sourced models in a trend that experts say will accelerate AI adoption and innovation.

The move underscores Baidu's push to undercut OpenAI and DeepSeek with low-cost, high-performance AI alternatives. Ernie 4.5, a native multimodal model, processes text, images, audio, and video, with improved logical reasoning, memory, and reduced hallucinations. Baidu claims it outperforms GPT-4.5 while costing just 1% of its price.

Baidu Inc. released a new artificial intelligence model that articulates its reasoning, in an apparent bid to regain momentum against up-and-coming rivals like DeepSeek.

Baidu said its new foundation model, Ernie 4.5, 'outperforms' US-based OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model in 'multiple benchmarks'.

ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming has become China's richest man as investors bet on companies with AI potential.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba said its latest AI reasoning model, QwQ-32B, "rivals cutting-edge reasoning model, e.g., DeepSeek-R1."

The rise in popularity of Yuanbao follows Tencent's move to integrate DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model in February.