# Why Baidu’s Ernie matters more than DeepSeek

> A few months ago, Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 made headlines. The world was introduced to an open-source AI model that matched OpenAI o1’s reasoning abilities at a fraction of the cost.

- **Source:** [TechRadar](https://www.techradar.com/pro/why-baidus-ernie-matters-more-than-deepseek?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=68a59630ce5e3f7c09fccaf0)
- **Published:** 2025-08-20
- **Category:** AI & Bots
- **Tags:** #anthropic #chatgpt #google #nvidia #openai #apple #ai #deepseek
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