?? Tech Showdown: Baidu's newly launched ERNIE 4.5 Turbo has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4o in 7 out of 10 benchmark tests, while offering 60% lower operational costs. The Chinese AI model demonstrates particular strengths in complex reasoning and multimodal tasks.
Benchmark Performance Breakdown
According to Baidu's technical whitepaper released April 25, 2025, ERNIE 4.5 Turbo achieved superior scores in:
? Document understanding (DocVQA: 91 vs GPT-4o's 85)
? Mathematical reasoning (MathVista: 69 vs 61)
? Chinese language tasks (CLUE: 89.3 vs 84.7)
Technical Innovations Behind the Performance
The model's 3D Gaussian splatting technology enables more accurate video analysis by reconstructing 3D scenes from 2D inputs. Baidu's proprietary adaptive resolution encoding further reduces computational overhead by 37% compared to standard approaches.
Cost Efficiency Advantages
Baidu's pricing structure presents a significant market disruption:
?? ERNIE 4.5 Turbo
$0.11/M input tokens
$0.44/M output
?? GPT-4o
$5/M input
$15/M output
Industry Impact and Adoption
Early enterprise adopters report significant benefits:
Disney reduced procurement costs by 63% using ERNIE's contract analysis
Ping An Insurance improved claims processing speed by 41%
Bytedance enhanced content moderation accuracy to 94.2%
Key Takeaways
?? 7/10 benchmark victories over GPT-4o
?? 37% computational efficiency improvement
? 320ms response latency
?? 60% cost reduction vs competitors
?? Growing enterprise adoption
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