Baidu is a Chinese internet search company based in Beijing, listed on Nasdaq and the Hong Kong exchange. Its AI work includes the ERNIE family of language and multimodal models, the PaddlePaddle framework and the Apollo autonomous driving program.
- Founded
- 2000
- Type
- Public company
- Founders
- Robin Li and Eric Xu
- AI lab
- Inference provider
- 14 hosted endpoints
Model family

Ernie
Baidu is a Chinese internet search company based in Beijing, listed on Nasdaq and the Hong Kong exchange. Its AI work includes the ERNIE family of language and multimodal models, the PaddlePaddle framework and the Apollo autonomous driving program.
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3 catalogued models
3 models · 1–3
| Select models to compare | Model | Released | Context | Input /M | Output /M | Parameters | Type | I/O | Openness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 30, 2025 | 123K | $0.42 | $1.25 | 424B | Text | image, text → text | Open weights | ||
| June 30, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 21.9B | Text | text → text | Open weights | ||
| June 30, 2025 | 131K | — | — | 300B | Text | text → text | Open weights |