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Lloyd Coombes

Ready to talk to Ernie? DeepSeek's latest rival from Baidu is here

Artificial intelligence concept image.

Chinese search giant Baidu, known for its search technology, has made its Ernie large language model open source as of June 30.

It's a shot across the bow of DeepSeek, China's premier LLM, which has seen unprecedented success since it debuted in December 2024.

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