Baichuan
by Baichuan Intelligence
At a glance
Open-weight bilingual LLM family from Beijing-based Baichuan Intelligence, now focused on medical AI with its Baichuan-M reasoning models.
llm open-weights medical
- Licence
- Baichuan Community License
- Category
- Open Models
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2023-06
Overview
Baichuan is a family of bilingual Chinese-English large language models from Beijing-based Baichuan Intelligence. Its earlier open-weight releases such as Baichuan-7B and Baichuan2 were widely used open Chinese LLMs, and the company has since concentrated on medical AI with its Baichuan-M reasoning models. Open weights are freely downloadable, while commercial APIs are offered separately.
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Key features
- Open-weight bilingual Chinese-English language models
- Baichuan-M series focused on medical reasoning
- Model weights published for research use
- Commercial API access for businesses
Use cases
- Building Chinese-language NLP applications on open weights
- Research on bilingual large language models
- Medical AI assistants based on the Baichuan-M series
Pricing
Open-weight Baichuan models are free to download for research, with licensing terms for commercial use; hosted APIs are billed by usage.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-10
- Model family
- Baichuan
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- CN
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/baichuan/
Selection profile
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- Running models yourself
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- Model weights
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- Local machine
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- Partly
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- Global
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Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
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Suggest a correction - Licence
- Baichuan Community License
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- Not recorded
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- Open source Free Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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Frequently asked questions
What is Baichuan?
Baichuan is a family of bilingual Chinese-English LLMs from Baichuan Intelligence, including open-weight releases and medical-focused Baichuan-M reasoning models.
Are Baichuan models open?
Several Baichuan models are released with open weights that are free for research, with separate terms for commercial use.
What is Baichuan focused on now?
Baichuan Intelligence has shifted its focus toward medical AI, developing the Baichuan-M series of reasoning models for healthcare.
What does Baichuan not record?
Because Baichuan was added after its batch's fetch round, no documentation or pricing page was reviewed, and its price figures, regional availability and language coverage are not established here.
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