Ernie 5.0 has been released, and it's a bigger leap than you might think!

A global battle for computing power continues. However, China remains undeterred and is relying on its own resources. While it's likely they received some chips via Singapore and probably a few of the weaker H800s, China ultimately performed quite well.

And despite all this, Baidu has managed to train and run a model that not only keeps pace with current Western models but even surpasses them in some areas. That's what's truly remarkable about this release.

Kimi K2 Thinking was reportedly trained with only $4.6 millio