August 16, 2026

Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

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Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several vision-related benchmarks despite using a fraction of t...