[China] - Baidu joins open-source movement by making Ernie 4.5 models openly readily available

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chinese tech giant Baidu on Monday marked its entry into the highly competitive field of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence (AI)
systems, by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on AI site Hugging Face. Baidu open-sourced 10 variants from its
Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family, from the 0.3 billion parameter lightweight models to the heavyweight 424 billion parameter ones,
according to a statement. Beijing-based Baidu, one of the earliest tech firms in China to...