{"id":925450,"date":"2025-04-26T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925450"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:02:38","slug":"deepseek-demand-shrinking-baidu-founder-notes-shift-away-from-text-only-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/26\/deepseek-demand-shrinking-baidu-founder-notes-shift-away-from-text-only-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"DeepSeek demand shrinking: Baidu founder notes shift away from text-only AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu Co-founder Robin Li said the demand for text-only generative AI models \u2014 such as those developed by industry frontrunner DeepSeek \u2014 is \u201cshrinking\u201d, in a direct swipe at one of China\u2019s most high-profile AI companies. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Baidu\u2019s developer conference on Friday, as reported by the Financial Times, Li claimed that while DeepSeek\u2019s large language models had gained early traction, they were now limited by their text-only capabilities. He criticised the models for a higher rate of so-called \u201challucinations\u201d, as well as slower performance and greater cost compared to rival domestic offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu Co-founder Robin Li said the demand for text-only generative AI models \u2014 such as those developed by industry frontrunner DeepSeek \u2014 is \u201cshrinking\u201d, in a direct swipe at one of China\u2019s most high-profile AI companies. Speaking at Baidu\u2019s developer conference on Friday, as reported by the Financial Times, Li claimed that while DeepSeek\u2019s large language models had gained early traction, they were now limited by their text-only capabilities. He criticised the models for a higher rate of so-called \u201challucinations\u201d, as well as slower performance and greater cost compared to rival domestic offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}