Baidu presents Ernie 4.5 and his new deep reasoning model Ernie X1, with capabilities equivalent to Deepseek R1

Baidu He has presented his new artificial intelligence models (AI), Ernie 4.5 y Ernie X1, The latter with multimodal capabilities of deep reasoning equivalent to those offered by the Deepseek R1 model, but with a cost “at half price”.

The Chinese technology, responsible for the Asian search engine with the same name, presented its ‘chatbot’ driven by the ernie with capabilities very similar to Openai’s GPT-4 model, although it was initially launched exclusively for Chinese market users.

Now, Baidu has presented his New Multimodal Model Ernie 4.5 and his new Ernie X1 Deep Reasoning Modelwhich offers advanced capabilities at a more affordable price and will be available for free for all users, through the official Ernie Bot website.

Specifically, the new native multimodal model ERNIE 4.5 integra Improvements in aspects such as understanding, generation of content, reasoning and memoryin addition to offering progress at the time of hallucinations prevention, logical reasoning and coding skills.

Thus, as the company explained in a statement, this model achieves a collaborative optimization that demonstrates “Exceptional multimodal understanding capabilities”which are shown in matters such as their ability to integrate and understand text content, as well as images, audio and video. Thanks to these improvements, Ernie 4.5 is able to understand Internet memes to satirical caricatures.

Following this line, Baidu has assured that Ernie 4.5 capabilities exceed those of the GPT-4.5 model “In multiple reference points”, while its price is “only 1 percent” of the aforementioned OpenAi model.

As he has developed, these improvements in the capacities of his new AI model are attributed to “key technologies”, as is the case with the masking of dynamic care ‘Flashmk’, the “Multimodal heterogeneous mixture of experts” and the posterior training improved with self -liming.

Deep Reasoning with Ernie X1

Along with this, technology has also presented its new model Ernie x1to which it refers as the First multimodal model of Baidu’s deep reasoningwhich stands out when answering requests on Chinese knowledge, literary creation, dialogues and logical reasoning, as well as to solve complex calculations.

As specified by the technological, this model admits several tools designed for the Advanced searchthe Resolution of questions about a specific document, the understanding of images, the interpretation of code and the generation of content with AI, among other skills.

To carry out these actions, Baidu has indicated that Ernie X1 has been Trained with the positive reinforcement learning method, as well as with the end -to -end training approach that “integrates chains of thought and action and a unified and multifaceted rewards system.”

Likewise, as a model of deep reasoning with multimodal capabilities, Baidu ensures that Ernie X1 offers a Performance equivalent to the Deepseek R1 reasoning model, but “at half price”.

With all this, the new Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1 models will be available for all Ernie Bot users, through the official ‘chatbot’ website and for free, free of charge, As of April 1.

Likewise, for the companies and developersErnie 4.5 is now available through API de la platformaforma Qianfan y Baidu AI Cloudwith entrance prices that start from 0.004 RMB (around 0.00051 euros to change) for every thousand tokens and output prices ranging from 0.016 RMB (0.0020 euros to change) per thousand tokens.

For its part, Ernie X1 will “soon” be launched also on the Qianfan platform with entry prices from 0.002 RMB (0.00025 euros to change) for every thousand tokens and exit prices from 0.008 rmb (0.0010 euros to change) per thousand tokens.