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Baidu Wenxin Yiyin: Completely Free, Opening a New Chapter of AI Inclusion

The field of artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, and Baidu, a leader in the field, recently announced another major development. The much-anticipated Wenxin Yiyin will be fully open to the public for free from April 1st. This means that users will be able to experience the powerful functions of the latest version of the Wenshin Big Model with zero threshold, regardless of whether they are using a PC or mobile APP.

This initiative undoubtedly reflects the remarkable results Baidu has achieved in terms of Wenxin Yiyin's technology iteration and cost control. Through the continuous upgrading of big model technology and the effective reduction of operating costs, Baidu is finally able to raise the universality of Wenxin Yiyin to a whole new level, allowing a wider group of users to benefit from advanced AI technology.

Wenxin Yiyin "Deep Search": Smarter, Deeper

At the same time, Wenxin Yiyin also synchronized the launch of the "deep search" function, which will also be free and open for use from April 1, along with the basic functions. The "deep search" function is another important technological breakthrough of Wenxin Yiyin, with more powerful planning capabilities and external tools to provide users with expert-level, more in-depth content response. Whether dealing with complex scenarios or multimodal inputs and outputs, "Deep Search" demonstrates excellent performance.

At present, users can go to the official website of Wenxin Yiyin to experience the "deep search" function first. It is believed that soon, the mobile APP version will also be synchronized with the update, so that mobile users can also enjoy the intelligent experience brought by Wenshin Yiyin's "in-depth search" at anytime and anywhere.

DeepSeek sweeps cloud platforms: the power of open source to accelerate AI adoption

About the same time that Baidu Inc. announced that Wenxin Yiyin was completely free, another industry development also attracted widespread attention: the domestic open source big model DeepSeek It is sweeping through major cloud platforms at an unprecedented rate. A number of cloud computing giants, including Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Ali Cloud, as well as companies such as Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, 360 Digital Security, and Cloud Axis Technology, have announced that they have gone live with the DeepSeek series of large models, such as the DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 models. These platforms allow users to easily invoke DeepSeek's powerful AI capabilities.

It is particularly noteworthy that Baidu Intelligent Cloud and AliCloud both announced the availability of DeepSeek models on the same day, February 3, which does not seem to be a simple coincidence, but rather a sign of the accelerated arrival of a certain industry trend. Baidu Intelligent Cloud not only quickly accessed the DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 models, but also launched an attractive low-priced program and even a free experience for a limited period of time, showing its strategic intent to actively embrace the open-source ecosystem and leverage the power of open-source to promote the popularization of AI. AliCloud emphasized that its PAI-Model Gallery platform can realize "one-click deployment on the cloud" of DeepSeek models, further lowering the threshold for users and improving development efficiency.

DeepSeek: Driven by both technical prowess and open source strategy

DeepSeek's ability to gain such a wide range of platform support in a short period of time is inseparable from its own technical strength and open source strategy. Since DeepSeek V3, R1, and Janus Pro were open-sourced in December 2024, it has rapidly won the recognition of developers and users around the world for its excellent performance in a number of tasks, including math, code, and natural language reasoning. Coupled with the further optimization and support of Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and KDDI Open Platform for DeepSeek models in terms of inference services, one-click deployment, fine-tuning services, etc., it undoubtedly pushes the ease-of-use and practicability of DeepSeek to a new level.

Big Model Inclusion: A New Trend in AI Development

From the comprehensive free of Wenxin Yiyin to the rapid popularization of DeepSeek in multiple platforms, we can clearly see the new trend of the development of the AI industry: the big model is accelerating towards universalization. On the one hand, head enterprises, such as Baidu, release their core AI capabilities in a more open and lower-threshold way through technology iteration and cost control; on the other hand, the rise of open source mode, represented by DeepSeek, has lowered the cost of access to AI technology and the threshold of its use, and accelerated the proliferation and application of AI technology.

It is foreseeable that with the deepening development of the wave of AI model popularization, AI technology will more widely penetrate into various industries, empowering the digital transformation of thousands of industries and ultimately benefiting a wider range of social groups. China's AI application ecosystem may usher in a more prosperous future.