Recently, Baidu founder Li Yanhong elaborated on the reasons behind the company's decision to open source the Wenxin large model 4.5 series during Baidu's Q4 2024 and full-year earnings call. Li emphasized that Baidu gained valuable insights from the DeepSeek project, namely that open sourcing the best models can significantly promote user adoption and recognition. He explained that when a model is open sourced, people's curiosity drives them to experiment, and this natural exploratory behavior helps the model be more widely applied in real-world scenarios.