Baidu has launched two powerful AI models, ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE X1 Turbo, that outperform GPT-4o in multimodal benchmarks while costing significantly less. These Chinese AI models are optimized for deep reasoning, image analysis, and live digital cloning, marking a major shift in the global AI race. Meanwhile, NVIDIA unveiled its OpenMath-Nemotron series focused