Well, that’s something to consider! The ChiComs are always up to no good. But on the other hand, the model is called ERNIE. And Ernie has always seemed trustworthy.
Posted on 03/17/2025 4:15:54 PM PDT by dennisw
Since the launch of DeepSeek's R1 model in January, the expectations for new foundation models have substantially increased. Baidu, a prominent Chinese technology firm, has announced the introduction of two new foundation models: ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1.
ERNIE 4.5 is a multimodal foundation model designed to understand text, images, audio, and video. It includes enhancements in language skills, understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory. According to Baidu, ERNIE 4.5 surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 in various standard benchmarks. A notable aspect of ERNIE 4.5 is its cost, which is just 1% of GPT-4.5's cost.
Baidu achieved ERNIE 4.5's performance and cost-efficiency using key technologies like FlashMask Dynamic Attention Masking, Heterogeneous Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts, Spatiotemporal Representation Compression, Knowledge-Centric Training Data Construction, and Self-feedback Enhanced Post-Training.
ERNIE X1 is Baidu's first multimodal deep-thinking reasoning model that is better in Chinese knowledge Q&A, dialogue, logical reasoning, complex calculations, and more. It also supports tool use, including advanced search, Q&A on a given document, image understanding, AI image generation, code interpreting, webpage reading, TreeMind mapping, Baidu academic search, business information search, and franchise information search.
The X1 is powered by key technologies such as the progressive reinforcement learning method, end-to-end training approach integrating chains of thought and action, and a unified multi-faceted reward system. According to Baidu, ERNIE X1 delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price.
Consumers can access the new ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 models via ERNIE Bot's website. Baidu is planning to integrate these new models into Baidu Search, the Wenxiaoyan app, and other services in the coming months. For developers, the new ERNIE 4.5 is now available via APIs on Baidu AI Cloud's MaaS platform Qianfan, while the ERNIE X1 model will be available soon.
The pricing for ERNIE 4.5 starts at RMB 0.004 per thousand tokens for input, and RMB 0.016 per thousand tokens for output. For ERNIE X1, the input prices begin at RMB 0.002 per thousand tokens, while the output prices are as low as RMB 0.008 per thousand tokens. In terms of US dollars, input and output prices start as low as $0.55 per 1M tokens and $2.2 per 1M tokens.
Fantastic AI bargain but spatulas for $1.25 at Dollar Tree have them beat.
Super duper enhanced spyware! Cheap! Anything coming out of China is worthless and dangerous.
If they name the next model BERT, they’ll have won the AI Race.
Thank God the US does not spy on it’s citizens, right?!
What does that have to do with anything? STFU.
Well, that’s something to consider! The ChiComs are always up to no good. But on the other hand, the model is called ERNIE. And Ernie has always seemed trustworthy.
It’s a trojan horse to “Bert” us.
As they say, if it cheap or free, you are the product.
Did they also use ChatGPT 4 to train their model, as did DeepSeek?
Your screen name fits you well
You should change yours to “Dipshit”.
Why should I give a crap about chinese spyware when China can’t do squat to me, meanwhile our own FBI arrested patriots for simply protesting stolen elections
They can install malware, destroy your files, get your bank info.
You really are a stupid moron. China can do a lot to your computer and your life. Go ahead and use Ernie because you are a fking retard.
WTF does the FBI have to do with Chinese malware?
Like I said dipshit STFU and GFY. Now stop asking stupid questions fatso.
“They can install malware, destroy your files, get your bank info.”
And so can the CIA, NSA and FBI
So go write an article about the FBI and CIA doing that. Then your asinine comments might have some context.
You don’t see me bitching about Biden killing chickens in this thread. Why? Because it has nothing to do with the fcking article.
Now go back to watching Space Ghost in your underwear.
Sorry but I am not gonna care about some nation on the other side of the world getting my info when our own government has been shown to illegally spy on us all the time
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