Li Yanhong: Baidu Wenxin Yiyan First to Charge for Large Language Model


On March 12, 2026, xAI released the new large language model Grok4.20 Beta. The model has set a new industry record with high factual reliability while maintaining cost advantages. In the intelligent index evaluation with reasoning capabilities, Grok4.20 scored 48 points, an increase of 6 points from its predecessor. Although its overall benchmark score (57 points) is still slightly lower than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and GPT-5.4, it performed outstandingly in the AA omniscient test, with a non-fantasy rate as high as 78%.
AI startup Nous Research launches Hermes4, an open-source model rivaling commercial systems with superior math skills and enhanced user control, intensifying competition with big tech.....
["The world's first smart speaker Vifa ChatMini with built-in ChatGPT will be globally launched on August 17th.", "ChatMini has dual AI of ChatGPT and Baidu Wenxin Yiyan built-in, which can create poems, offer comfort, play games, etc.", "The smart speaker will be released in the United States on August 17th, with a price of $259."]
Programmers have a new tool to cheer about! LocAgent, a graph-indexed large language model (LLM) agent framework designed specifically for code localization, has been jointly developed by the research teams from OpenHands, Yale University, University of Southern California, and Stanford University. Excitingly, LocAgent's code localization accuracy reached 92.7%, and this new achievement will be officially presented at the 2025 ACL conference. Programmers often struggle with identifying the root cause of code problems in their work. For example
Recently, Baidu's Ernie Bot officially announced that starting from 12:00 AM on April 1, 2024, its services will be fully available for free to all PC and app users. This means that users will not need to pay any fees to experience the latest features of the Ernie Bot series models.