BEIJING, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 15 January 2024 - Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with strong Internet foundation, has become aware of media reports regarding an academic paper that mentioned several large language models ("LLM") such as GPT3.5, GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT4, HTML-T5, and Baidu's ERNIE Bot and would like to offer the following clarifications.