ERNIE Bot
Baidu Inc.
ERNIE Bot (文心一言) is Baidu's flagship generative AI assistant powered by the ERNIE large language model. It offers chat, creative writing, image generation, code generation, document analysis, and multimodal understanding. The latest version (ERNIE 5.1) supports agent-based workflows, step-by-step content creation, and deep analysis. It competes directly with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in the Chinese and global markets.
Free tier available; ERNIE 5.1 requires paid subscription (API and web).
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