China is maintaining its lead in the open models space, but the companies with the top models are constantly shifting.

BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use, echoing key aspects of DeepSeek's market-shaking breakthrough. Startup Z.ai, ...

In a bold pivot that few industry watchers saw coming, Baidu—China’s leading AI powerhouse—has open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 large language model (LLM) series under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. today announced that it’s open-sourcing its powerful generative artificial intelligence foundation model Ernie 4.5, in a move that experts say will nudge the ...

BEIJING — The latest Chinese generative artificial intelligence model to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT is offering coding capabilities — at a lower price. Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released on late ...