Baidu

Baidu has released Qianfan-OCR-Fast, a multimodal model specialized for optical character recognition tasks. The model offers a 66,000 token context window and is priced at $0.68 per 1M input tokens and $2.81 per 1M output tokens.

Baidu has released CoBuddy, a code generation model optimized for coding tasks and AI agent workflows. The model features a 131K token context window, up to 65K output tokens, and runs on fp8 quantization with native support for tool calling and reasoning.

Baidu has released Qianfan-OCR-Fast, a specialized OCR model with a 65,536 token context window, available at zero cost through OpenRouter. The model launched on April 20, 2026, and is positioned as a performance upgrade over the original Qianfan-OCR.

Baidu has released ERNIE-Image, an 8B parameter text-to-image generation model built on a single-stream Diffusion Transformer architecture. The model is designed for complex instruction following, text rendering, and structured image generation, and can run on consumer GPUs with 24GB VRAM.