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China's tech companies have ramped up efforts in AI exploration, launching a growing number of new models following DeepSeek's R1 release earlier this year.
Baidu launched its latest foundation models -- ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 -- on Sunday, highlighting the intensifying AI contest in China.
ERNIE 4.5 is Baidu's latest self-developed multimodal model, according to the information the company provided to the Global Times on Sunday.
It achieves collaborative optimization through joint modeling of multiple modalities, demonstrating exceptional multimodal comprehension capabilities. With refined language skills, it exhibits comprehensive improvements in understanding, generation, reasoning and memory, along with notable enhancements in hallucination prevention, logical reasoning, and coding abilities.