Baidu’s New AI Is Already Beating Top Models and Cost 94% Less to Build

In brief

• Baidu says ERNIE 5.1 pre-training cost is just 6% of what comparable AI models spend
• Despite this, the model is ranked fourth globally on the LMArena Search leaderboard.
• Baidu compressed the model to roughly one-third the total parameters of its predecessor, ERNIE 5.0, without…