Ernie Bot, full name Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration, is an AI chatbot service product of Baidu, released in 2023. It is built on a large language model called ERNIE, which has been in development since 2019.
Version, ERNIE 4.0, was announced on October 17, 2023.
Version 4.5 and reasoning model ERNIE X1 were released free of charge on March 16, 2025. From Wikipedia
