With the rivals such as DeepSeek seeing rapid user adoption, Baidu is lifting the paywall on its AI assistant ERNIE Bot.

Baidu plans to offer its Ernie chatbot at no cost to both desktop and mobile users as it seeks to take the crown as China's ...

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In its Thursday announcement, Baidu suggested that “inference cost reductions” allowed it to release ERNIE for free. The ...

Baidu’s shares jumped Thursday after the Chinese tech company announced that its AI chatbot, Ernie Bot, will be available for free starting April 1, citing advancements in technology and lower costs.

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Shares of Baidu surged after the Chinese tech giant announced plans to make its popular ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence chatbot available for free starting April 1, amid growing competition in ...

Shares in Chinese search giant Baidu surged as much as 11.7% in Hong Kong on Thursday after it announced it will make its AI ...

The Beijing-based company stated that it would offer its Ernie AI chatbot at no cost to both desktop and mobile users.

Baidu will make Ernie Bot free from April 1 to boost adoption as AI competition in China intensifies against ByteDance and ...