India, March 17 -- Another one bites the dust! Oh, that's a famous number rendered by Queen, many years ago!

We had DeepSeek shocking the AI world earlier, with R1. Now, we have another slam dunk from China -- Baidu's ERNIE 4.5!

ERNIE 4.5 is trained on massive pieces of data, and can do a bunch of different tasks. ERNIE 4.5 scores 77.77% vs. 73.92% for ChatGPT. ERNIE Bot is being made free to the public ahead of schedule. Earlier this year, Baidu had announced a plan that the ERNIE Bot would become fully-free to individual users starting April 1.

For enterprise users and developers, ERNIE 4.5 is now accessible via APIs on Baidu AI Cloud's MaaS platform Qianfan, and ERNIE X1 is set to be available on the platform soon.

ERNIE 4.5's mult...