Key Takeaways ERNIE 4.5 strengthens BIDU's AI stack with multimodal, instruction-following and reasoning features.Qianfan integrates ERNIE 4.5 and third-party tools to accelerate and streamline AI application development.Baidu's AI Cloud remains in transition, with scalability and monetisation posing near-term execution hurdles.Baidu’s (BIDU) AI Cloud business is gaining strategic significance as the company focuses on scaling its foundation model ecosystem and expanding enterprise use cases. The launch of ...