IT Home: On November 12th, during today's Baidu World Conference 2026 event, Baidu founder Robin Li announced the launch of a brand-new large model service platform – "Ciyuan소" (Ci Yuan Su).
Li Yanhong stated that when a developer or a company truly wants to put a model into use, they often find that the more models there are, the more difficult it becomes to make a choice. Some models are expensive, while others are cheap; their origins vary widely, and the quality is inconsistent. As a result, they feel uncertain and hesitant to use any of them.
Li Yanhong stated that "Ci Yuan Su" was created to solve this problem, claiming to be a neutral and credible large-scale model trading platform. He explained that this exchange can be likened to a stock exchange. A stock exchange attracts good companies to list their shares, allowing investors to discover and invest in these companies; "Ci Yuan Su," on the other hand, aims to bring together high-quality models and model providers, enabling enterprises and individuals to easily find and use credible models.
IT learned from the conference site that 'Ci Yuan Suo' claims to conduct comprehensive access tests on model resources, covering model and fingerprint comparison, model capability testing, performance indicator testing, usability testing, etc. They also continuously monitor model quality parameters. Through these measures, 'Ci Yuan Suo' aims to prevent actions such as substituting models and mislabeling parameters, ensuring that every model resource that enters is of guaranteed quality.
"Ci Yuan Suo" also scores model providers in multiple dimensions such as service quality, fulfillment rate, security compliance, and commercial performance, and assigns credit rating labels. For those model providers whose credit declines, "Ci Yuan Suo" will proactively remind users immediately. All of this data is then recorded as a publicly accessible credit profile.
"Ci Yuan Su" has been online for a month, and the number of resources supplied has exceeded 100. The average daily calls of Token have surpassed 700 billion.
