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Baidu Wenxin Assistant

Application

by Baidu

Baidu's consumer assistant for chat, writing and image generation, built on the ERNIE models.

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yiyan.baidu.com now redirects to wenxin.baidu.com, which returns HTTP 200 with a 17-character body: the app renders client-side, so no plan or charging model was readable on 2026-08-23. ERNIE names both the model family and this app.

What it does

• Text generation
• Summarization
• Image generation

How it compares

• Qwen

  For Baidu Core business, our main competitors in the Chinese internet market include China-based internet companies, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Kuaishou, Sohu, Qihoo 360, Xiaomi and Huawei.

  Regulatory filing · 25 Mar 2020
• Tencent Yuanbao

  For Baidu Core business, our main competitors in the Chinese internet market include China-based internet companies, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Kuaishou, Sohu, Qihoo 360, Xiaomi and Huawei.

  Regulatory filing · 25 Mar 2020

Sources

Sold within

Official documentation · 30 Sep 2026

In-app browser, 2026-09-30 (curl returns an empty client-rendered body). The app page titled "百度文心助手 - 办公学习一站解决" opens straight into chat ("新对话" [New chat]; history sync is optional: "登录同步历史对话" [Log in to sync chat history]; the greeting line changes with the time of day) and offers "扫码下载文心APP" and "立即下载" [Scan to download the Wenxin app / Download now]. Free web use and free app download = self-serve. No paid tier or membership price was shown (no "会员" on the page).

Name

News reporting · 1 Nov 2025

Confirmed a RENAME, not a merge or sibling product, settled by reading Baidu's own announcement rather than guessing between the three. IT之家, 2025-11-01, quoting Baidu's own release: "百度“文心一言”App 于 2023 年 7 月 4 日上架 App Store，后于 2024 年 9 月 4 日发布 4.0.0 版本并改为“文小言”。今日，百度发布了最新的 5.0.0 版本，其名称再次改为——文心。" (Baidu's 'Wenxin Yiyan' [ERNIE Bot] app listed on the App Store 2023-07-04, renamed 'Wenxiaoyan' with its 4.0.0 release 2024-09-04; today [2025-11-01] Baidu released 5.0.0, renamed again -- to 'Wenxin'.) Same article quotes Baidu's OWN App Store description for the new name: "文心（原文小言），提供搜索、创作、聊天、创意图片等丰富多样的 AI 能力。" (Wenxin, formerly Wenxiaoyan, provides search, creation, chat, creative images and other diverse AI capabilities) -- Baidu's own copy explicitly parenthesises the prior name, confirming continuity of the same product rather than a new one. Independently verified live 2026-09-10 at the record's own URL (wenxin.baidu.com's robots.txt allows only the root path; fetched within that limit): <title> and JSON-LD both read 百度文心助手 ("Baidu Wenxin Assistant"), matching this citation and an earlier fetch already on this record's target_users provenance. Full lineage, same app throughout: 文心一言/ERNIE Bot (launched 2023-03-16, yiyan.baidu.com) -> 文小言/Wenxiaoyan (2024-09-04, itself already superseded by the time this was written) -> 文心/Wenxin, i.e. "Baidu Wenxin Assistant" (2025-11-01, current). NOT acted on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Bot, last revised 2026-08-13, still names 'Wenxiaoyan' as current and has no mention of the 2025-11-01 rename -- stale relative to the live page and to four independent contemporaneous Chinese outlets (IT之家, 凤凰网, 新浪科技, zh.wikipedia.org), so not treated as authoritative here.

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