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The Chinese Internet search giant Baidu published a new argumentation model for artificial intelligence on Sunday and has made its KI chat bot services free of charge, while the wild competition inspires the sector.

Technology companies in China have tried to publish improved AI platforms because Start-up Deepseek shocked its rivals with its open source and its high-cost-efficient model in January.

Baidu announced in a Wechat post that its latest X1 argumentation model -which the company claims, similar to Deepseeks, but for lower costs -and a new foundation model, Ernie 4.5, were available via the AI ​​-Chatbot Ernie Bot.

Baidu also freely used the models before the schedule. Before that, users had to pay a monthly subscription to access the company's latest AI models.

The company based in Beijing was one of the first China, which publicly used a generative AI platform in 2023, but competing chatbots from companies such as Tikok owner Bytedance and Moonshot AI have won more users since then.

Baidu is confronted with a strong competition in the AI ​​sector, in which Startup Deepseek shook the industry at home and abroad with a model that cost comparatively with competitors like the US Chatgpt, but cost much less for the development.

Since then, Chinese companies and local government agencies have been hurrying to include Deepseek's open source model in their work while other technology companies have obtained.

Baidu itself has integrated Deepseek's R1 argumentation model into its search engine.

In February, Wechat owner Tencent released a new KI model, in which answers were applied for faster than Deepseek, also when the technology of his rival was included in his messaging platform.

In the same month, Alibaba, who teamed up with Apple, said 380 billion yuan (52 billion US dollars) in AI over the next three years.

Alibaba also published a new version of its AI assistant app this month, which is powered with the open source QWen argumentation model.

Baidu has also announced plans to follow Deepseek's leadership by making his Ernie AI models open from June 30th.

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