Baidu’s New Reasoning Model Said to Offer Same Performance as Deepsek-R1

Baidu Released two new artificial intelligence (ai) models on sunday. First, The Ernie 4.5 is a foundation model that successes the company’s previous generation, while the second, ERNIE X1, is a Reasoning-Focused Model. The latter is also the chinese tech giant’s first attempt at a “deep-thinking” ai model, and baidu claims that the large language model (lLM) performs on-par with the Deepsek-R1. AlongSide the model releases, baidu also made its ai platform ernie bot free to access, and users will not have to pay a premium to use the chatbot.

Baidu releases new ernie ai models

In a Press releaseThe chinese tech giant announced the release of the two new ai models. Currently, only the Ernie 4.5 model has been released and is accessible via the chatbot platform, and the company said that that Ertie X1 will be available soon. Typically, AI Companies Introduce New Models With A Research Paper and Repository (If they’re open-source), However, Baidu did not release eather.

The company highlighted that the ERNIE 4.5 will be open-Sourced on June 30 with Source Code and Model Weights Made Awailable to Developers. No Such Announcement has been made about the reasoning model.

ERNIE 4.5 is a naturally multimodal ai model with the ability to understand text, images, audio, and videos. This means users can upload these file formats as input and ask the ai queries about them. The company also said that the language capabilities of the model are being enhanced and it can now better responsible responses as well as as well as reasons and Memory-Based Queries. ERNIE 4.5 can also undersrstand Contextual Content Such as Memes, Satire, and Others.

ERNIE 4.5 Benchmark Scores
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As for performance, baidu claimed that its latest foundation model outperforms GPT-4.5 across various benchmarks, and is priced at one one percent of GPT-4.5. The performance metrics are based on the company’s internal testing. Apart from the Ai Platform, ERNIE 4.5 is also available via application programming interfaces on Baidu Ai Cloud’s Maas Platform Quianfan.

On pricing, baidu said that ernie 4.5 input prises start at cny 0.004 (roughly Rs. 0.04) per Thousand Tokens, and the Output Price are set at cny 0.016 (roughly rout

Coming to Ernie X1, The Company Claimed That The Multimodal Reasoning Model Comes With the Capability of Tool Use and Excels in Parameters Such as Such as Chinese Knowledge Q & A, Literary Creament, Literary Creation, MANUSCRIPT WHITING, Dialogue, logical reasoning, and complex mathematics. Some of the tools it supports include advanced search, image undersrstanding, document understanding, image generation, code interpreting, webpage reading, tremind mapping, and more.

The company said that its first reasoning model was trained Using Progressive Reinforcement Learning (RL), An End-to-Ed Training Approach, and a Unified Multi-Facted Reward System. Just like Deepseek-R1It also also come with a visible chain of thought (cot).

While Ernie X1 is not available on the Quianfan Platform, Once it is released, its input prices will be kept at CNY 0.002 (Roughly Rs. Rs. 0.09) Per Thousand Tokens, Respected.