Baidu Releases New Ernie AI Models
In a press release, the Chinese tech big introduced the discharge of the 2 new AI fashions. Currently, solely the Ernie 4.5 mannequin has been launched and is accessible through the chatbot platform, and the corporate stated that the Ernie X1 shall be out there quickly. Typically, AI firms introduce new fashions with a analysis paper and repository (in the event that they’re open-source), nonetheless, Baidu didn’t launch both.
The firm highlighted that the Ernie 4.5 shall be open-sourced on June 30 with supply code and mannequin weights made out there to builders. No such announcement has been made concerning the reasoning mannequin.
Ernie 4.5 is a natively multimodal AI mannequin with the power to know textual content, pictures, audio, and movies. This means customers can add these file codecs as enter and ask the AI queries about them. The firm additionally stated that the language capabilities of the mannequin are being enhanced and it will possibly now higher reply to conversational messages in addition to reasoning and memory-based queries. Ernie 4.5 may also perceive contextual content material equivalent to memes, satire, and others.
Ernie 4.5 benchmark scores
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As for efficiency, Baidu claimed that its newest basis mannequin outperforms GPT-4.5 throughout numerous benchmarks, and is priced at one % of GPT-4.5. The efficiency metrics are primarily based on the corporate’s inside testing. Apart from the AI platform, Ernie 4.5 can be out there through utility programming interfaces on Baidu AI Cloud’s MaaS platform Quianfan.
On pricing, Baidu stated that Ernie 4.5 enter costs begin at CNY 0.004 (roughly Rs. 0.04) per thousand tokens, and the output costs are set at CNY 0.016 (roughly Rs. 0.19) per thousand tokens.
Coming to Ernie X1, the corporate claimed that the multimodal reasoning mannequin comes with the potential of software use and excels in parameters equivalent to Chinese data Q&A, literary creation, manuscript writing, dialogue, logical reasoning, and complicated arithmetic. Some of the instruments it helps embody superior search, picture understanding, doc understanding, picture era, code interpretation, webpage studying, TreeMind mapping, and extra.
The firm stated that its first reasoning mannequin was educated utilizing progressive reinforcement studying (RL), an end-to-end coaching strategy, and a unified multi-faceted reward system. Just like DeepSeek-R1, it additionally comes with a visual chain of thought (CoT).
While Ernie X1 is just not out there on the Quianfan Platform, as soon as it’s launched, its enter costs shall be saved at CNY 0.002 (roughly Rs. 0.02) and output costs at CNY 0.008 (roughly Rs. 0.09) per thousand tokens, respectively.
