Baidu Launches AI Interactive 'New Search' with Listening, Understanding, and Visual Capabilities


Baidu launches the new generation Ernie Bot 5.1, featuring 'multi-dimensional elastic pre-training' technology, emphasizing high cost-effectiveness and strong search integration. Now available on Baidu Qianfan Model Plaza and Ernie Bot official website, it offers open experience for enterprise users and developers, showcasing a breakthrough in domestic large models amid AI competition.....
Recently, Nanjing lawyer Li Xiaoliang discovered that Baidu's 'AI Intelligent Answer' falsely claimed he 'was sentenced to three years in prison' with his professional photo. This 'AI hallucination' severely misrepresents facts, infringes on his reputation rights, and raises social concerns about the authenticity and legal liability of AIGC content.....
Zhitu AI completed the acquisition of 100% ownership of Beijing Hongzuan Technology with a total cost of no more than 361 million yuan (including 81.62 million yuan for equity acquisition and 278.9 million yuan for debt assumption), thereby obtaining the property of the Diamond Building in Zhongguancun Software Park. The building is located on Dongbeiwang West Road in Haidian District, with a construction area of about 22,700 square meters. It is surrounded by technology companies such as Baidu, Tencent, and Lenovo, marking the official establishment of Zhitu AI's headquarters property.
Hao Jianye believes that if AI cannot move from 'storage' to 'memory,' it cannot become a true intelligent partner. The company he founded, MemoraX AI, completed a million-dollar seed round just one month after its establishment, led by the L2F Lightsource Entrepreneur Fund and Zhongding Capital. The funds will mainly be used for research and development of Agentic RL (Agent Reinforcement Learning) technology, aiming to break through the limitation of large models being merely efficient search engines.
The focus of the competition among large models is shifting from performance comparison to large-scale application in enterprise scenarios, with a pursuit of low cost and high efficiency. Ant Group has launched the commercial version of Ling-2.6-flash, called LingDT-2.6-flash, which emphasizes "Token Efficiency." Compared to models of the same parameter level, it can save 90% of Token consumption, making it faster and more cost-effective, and suitable for large-scale deployment in real enterprise scenarios.