India, July 4 -- According to Commercial Times, following the success of DeepSeek-R1 earlier this year, major Chinese tech companies have been actively advancing the development of open-source AI models, driving down the cost of using large models by 60% to 80%. Notably, on June 30, both Baidu and Huawei announced the release of their models as open source, as the report highlights.

Baidu goes open with Ernie 4.5

As noted by South China Morning Post, Baidu entered the Chinese open-source AI arena by making its flagship Ernie 4.5 models available for download on the AI platform Hugging Face. The report states that Baidu has open-sourced 10 variants from its Ernie 4.5 multimodal model family, ranging from lightweight models with 0.3 billi...