Baidu to open-source its multimodal AI model 'ERNIE 4.5' as scheduled by the end of June 2025
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'ERNIE 4.5,' a multimodal AI model announced by Chinese IT giant Baidu in March 2025, will be open-sourced on Monday, June 30, 2025. Open-sourcing had been planned for some time, and AI experts have pointed out that this is not a competition, but a declaration of war on prices, and that this could change the shape of AI development.
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Baidu has been developing AI models since 2019, and in March 2025, it announced the multimodal AI model 'ERNIE 4.5,' which it says can provide performance almost equivalent to 'DeepSeek-R1' developed by Chinese AI company DeepSeek at half the cost.
'DeepSeek-R1' is a model that performs equivalent to OpenAI-o1 in certain AI benchmark tests and has been released under the MIT license, which allows commercial use and modification.
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Baidu CEO Li Yanhong was originally of the opinion that AI development should proceed under a closed model, but the situation has changed dramatically with the emergence of DeepSeek. When he attended the World Government Summit in Dubai in February 2025, he expressed his understanding of the open source approach, saying, 'When you open things up, many people are interested in trying them out. That helps spread the technology more quickly.'
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Regarding the development and release of ERNIE 4.5, CEO Lee announced that 'it will be released in stages and will be officially open sourced on June 30, 2025,' and now it will be open sourced as planned.
Alec Strathmore, founder of AI advisory Epic Loot, said, 'Baidu has thrown a Molotov cocktail into the world of AI. Baidu's move is a call to stop paying high prices for AI, and is a declaration of war on pricing, not competition.'
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