(Photo=Baidu) Baidu released a large language model (LLM) that outperforms rival models from DeepSeek, Tencent, and Xiaomi in major performance evaluations. In particular, it made public the weights of a model that had undergone only pre-training, enabling developers to build their own AI. However, it excluded South Korea and Europe from the regions where use is permitted. On the 5th, Baidu released the weights of “ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base (ERNIE 5.5 Flash Bas