
China Review – March 16, 2023: View of Ernie Bot logo, an AI chatbot service developed by Chinese search engine Baidu.
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On Monday, Chinese technology giant Baidu Plan to make it Ernie Generative AI Large language models are open source, a move in China’s technology sector, which is probably the largest AI competition since deepseek’s emergence. A Baidu spokesperson confirmed the plan and said that open procurement will be gradually launched.
Will this shock the market About the order of DeepSeek? This is a question of dividing AI experts.
A big change is that Baidu is not always in the open source trend.
“Baidu always strongly supports its proprietary business model and is against open source, but disruptors like DeepSeek prove that open source models can be as competitive and reliable as proprietary models,” Technical Research and Consulting Group OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, OMDIA, Telled CNBC earlier.
Now, Baidu has decided to open source, and even if this is not a deep moment, it is also an important moment for the global AI race.
“It’s not just a Chinese story. Whenever a large lab opens up a powerful model, it raises the bar for the entire industry,” said Sean Ren, associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and Samsung’s AI of the Year Fellow.
Ren said Baidu’s moves put pressure on closed providers and humanitarians such as Openai to justify closed APIs and premium pricing.
“While most consumers don’t care whether the code of the model is open source, they do care about lower costs, better performance and support for their language or region. These benefits often come from open models, which makes developers and researchers more free to iterate, customize and deploy faster,” Ren said.
Other industry experts believe open source Ernie may be more destructive to U.S. and Chinese competitors in terms of price equations.
“Baidu just threw Molotov into the AI world,” said Alec Strasmore, founder of AI Advisory Epic Loot. “All of these people who think they sell top champagne will realize that Baidu will donate something powerful,” said Strasmore.
The message to all startups around the world is to “stop paying the highest dollar.”
“It’s not a game; it’s a declaration of pricing wars,” Strasmore said.
Baidu said in March that its recent Ernie X1 model with DeepSeek’s R1 “only half the price” provided performance.
Baidu CEO Robin Li hinted earlier this year that the launch will help developers around the world in terms of AI development. “Our release is designed to enable developers to build the best applications without worrying about model capabilities, costs or development tools,” Lee said in an April speech to developers in China.
It is crucial that investors analyze how cost dynamics in AI model access change rapidly, and how time can it take to build more applications on top of “these dirt cheap models.” He added: “Baidu will use Chinese artificial intelligence models to sow the world.”

A significant development from Baidu is making these AI tools more widely available, but “the news on Baidu can cause a big sensation,” he said. “Most of the U.S. people don’t even know that this is a Chinese tech company.”
Jurkiewicz compares the broader moves in AI with the differences between Android and Apple.
“When Android first came out, its excellent feature was that it was configurable and customizable. But, in a sense, it was almost a job in the sense that people wanted to function correctly,” Jurkiewicz said. “Android out of the box is simple and vanilla, so it had to be customized, which was a real challenge.”
Openai’s Altman says open source needs to be “figure it”
There is no doubt that the open source movement in AI threatens the business model of major players in the field. Openai CEO Sam Altman January reddit thread On this issue, in recent Senate testimony, open source promotion may occur this summer.
“While Openai has been open source models in the past, the company generally favors a proprietary, closed source development approach,” Altman said, acknowledging that this may require change. “(I personally think we need) to figure out different open source strategies,” Altman said. “Not everyone has this view, and that’s not our highest priority right now… We’re going to have a better model (progress), but we’re going to have less leads than we have in previous years.”
exist May’s Senate appearance, Altman says“We realize that our open AI can help a lot more here. So we’re going to release an open source model that we think will be the leading model this summer because we want people to build on the American stack on closed source models. Many worlds, many worlds use our technology and the technology of our colleagues. We think we’re in good shape there.”
recent, Ultraman (Altman)but it is still scheduled for summer.
According to Jurkiewicz, one advantage that American players believe is that Baidu releases will encounter skepticism at the enterprise level and have many security issues. “On the other hand, the big players – Openai’s Chatgpt and Microsoft’s Co-Pilot – are all in one with everything,” Jurkiewicz said.
Ren said that while open source often conveys a sense of transparency, it does not necessarily translate into market trust. “Just because the weight of the model is public, it does not mean we know what data was trained, whether consent was obtained, or whether those data contributors received credit or compensation,” Ren said.
As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into our daily lives, the lack of accountability has become a serious problem. “If we don’t solve it now, we have the risk of scaling systems that quietly withdraw value without consent, credit or compensation,” Ren said.
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Strathmore said that if more products are related to Baidu API, Chinese links could become dangerous. “This will actually give China access to every app on every phone. It’s a terrible component,” he said.