Baidu unveils M100 & M300 AI chips and ‘natively multimodal’ ERNIE 5.0 at Baidu World 2025, plus new ‘Tianchi’ supernodes
Beijing — November 13, 2025 — Updated same day Baidu used its annual Baidu World conference in Beijing to roll out two homegrown AI processors, a fresh generation of its ERNIE model, and a new class of supernode systems designed to stitch thousands of accelerators together—moves aimed at hardening China’s AI stack against tightening export controls and spiraling compute costs. Reuters+1 The hardware: Kunlunxin M100 and M300 At the center of today’s announcements are two in‑house semiconductors from Baidu’s Kunlunxin unit: Baidu framed the chips as “powerful, low‑cost, and domestically controlled” compute to serve Chinese enterprises that have struggled to