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Baidu's PaddleOCR now supports Transformers as an inference backend, making it easier to integrate with the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Baidu invited a visitor to their Beijing office to demo a robot hand that mimics human hand movements with minimal delay, highlighting the rapid growth of China's humanoid robotics ecosystem with over 150 companies, as noted by Elon Musk.

Baidu has quietly built a trillion-dollar infrastructure including chips, cloud, framework, models, and agents, serving 700 million users, unveiled at Baidu Create.

The article details Baidu's strategic ownership of four out of five layers in the AI race (chips, cloud, models, apps) showcased at the Baidu Create event, highlighting its resilience against export bans and its ecosystem built over a decade.

Speculative news about possible new ERNIE models from Baidu, hinted at via tweets and an upcoming Baidu Create 2026 event video.

This paper presents an efficient LLM-based advertising framework using model compression and parallel verification, achieving over 1.8x speedup in real-world deployment at Baidu.

Baidu's ERNIE 5.1 ranks 4th on the Search Arena leaderboard, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.4 in AI search tasks.

Baidu open-sourced ERNIE-Image, an 8B parameter text-to-image model with commercial-use weights, making it one of the few fully open and fine-tunable alternatives to closed models like Midjourney.

Baidu releases ERNIE-Image, an open-weight text-to-image generation model with 8B parameters built on Diffusion Transformer architecture, achieving state-of-the-art performance among open-weight models with strong capabilities in text rendering, instruction following, and structured image generation.

Baidu releases ERNIE-Image-Turbo, a distilled text-to-image generation model that achieves fast generation in 8 inference steps while maintaining strong text rendering, instruction following, and structured image generation capabilities.