Baidu's assistant, tied into Baidu Search
Visit ERNIE 文心一言 →ERNIE is Baidu's conversational assistant and was among the first Chinese models to reach the public. Its distinguishing feature is tight coupling with Baidu Search, which gives it good coverage of Chinese web content, local information and current events that models without search access simply miss.
Chinese-language questions that depend on local, current or region-specific information.
Generally behind Doubao and DeepSeek on reasoning and code, and answers can be noticeably conservative.
Free tier available; paid membership for the stronger models.
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