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Baidu (Ernie)

Chinese tech giant with Ernie Bot, first major Chinese ChatGPT competitor, and Apollo autonomous driving

Founded2000
HeadquartersBeijing, China
FundingPublic company (NASDAQ: BIDU, $35B+ market cap)
Safety ApproachEnterprise-grade safety and compliance
Key People
Robin Li (CEO & Co-founder)Haifeng Wang (CTO)

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Ernie 4.0
AI Model
Ernie Bot
AI Model
Apollo
AI Model

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Capability Benchmarks

Language
75%
Reasoning
70%
Coding
68%
Multimodal
65%
Science
60%
Robotics
55%
Agency
50%

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