According to CNBC, Chinese web services giant Baidu is working on a new AI model to be released later this year. The big language model (LLM) is expected to be released in the second half of the new generation Ernie 5.0.

Following the rapid rise of OpenAI, Baidu was one of the fastest and fastest action in the productive AI field. The company released the Ernie AI model and a chat -like chat robot known as Ernie Bot in March 2023. Later, several updates were made last year, including Ernie 4.0 Turbo.

Some time ago, similar to Apple’s partnership with OpenAI, there was reports that he could cooperate with Baidu to bring AI features to iPhones in China. However, Apple seems to have finally decided to Alibaba.

The ongoing AI race worldwide is also heating in China and competing with other technology giants such as Baidu’s Ernie Bot, AI race and released chat robots. There are also some initiatives such as Deepseek, who recently shook the world of technology.

A source broadcast with information on the subject is expected to bring Ernie 5.0 to “multi -moded abilities” is expected to bring. In addition, it will be a “basic model like the previous versions and will perform a wide range of tasks, including natural language communication, text and image production.

BAIDU CEO Robin Li, in his speech at the World Governments Summit held in Dubai, said that we were in an exciting period and said, “Within 12 months [basic models], the cost of inferences can be fundamentally reduced by more than 90 %: If you can reduce a percentage, this means that your productivity increases at that rate. I think this is quite close to the nature of innovation. “

Nevertheless, there is no information about how Ernie 5.0 will have features and upgrades, and Baidu hasn’t officially announced the new generation AI model for now. Last year, Ernie Bot reached over 300 million users, Baidu’s Paddlepadle AI ecosystem served more than 14.65 million developers and reached 370,000 institutions and organizations.