ERNIE Bot (文心一言) is Baidu's flagship multimodal AI platform in 2026, powered by advanced models like ERNIE 5.0 (omni-modal: text, image, audio, video), ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning-focused ERNIE X1. It excels in Chinese NLP, deep reasoning, content generation, image/video understanding, tool use, and agentic workflows. Free public access via chat interface, ultra-low API pricing (as low as 1% of GPT equivalents), strong in knowledge, coding, multimodal tasks—ideal for Chinese users, enterprises, developers, and global creators seeking cost-effective, high-performance AI.