Baidu’s New ERNIE 4.5 & X1 – A Free AI That Is Better Than GPT-4.5 & Costs Pennies!

Baidu just dropped two powerful AI models—ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1—and made them completely free on its ERNIE Bot platform. This move is shaking things up, directly challenging giants like OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek by putting advanced AI into everyone’s hands, not just big companies with deep pockets. By opening these models to the public, Baidu‘s clearly […]